{"product_id":"the-steal-the-attempt-to-overturn-the-2020-election-and-the-people-who-stopped-it","title":"The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It","description":"Product Description      \n\n\n\n“A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting: tightly wound… but also panoramic.”—Washington Post“A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”—New York TimesIn The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President\nDonald Trump and his allies fought to reverse\nthe outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states—Arizona,\nGeorgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—Trump’s supporters claimed widespread voter\nfraud.Caught up in this effort were scores of activists, lawyers, judges,\nand state and local officials. Working with a\nteam of researchers and reporters, Bowden and Teague uncover never-before-told accounts from the election\nofficials fighting to do their jobs amid\noutlandish claims and threats to themselves, their colleagues, and their families. The Steal is an engaging, in-depth report on what happened during those crucial nine weeks and a portrait of\nthe dedicated individuals who did their duty\nand stood firm against the unprecedented, sustained\nattack on our election system and ensured that every legal vote was counted and that the will of the people prevailed.\n\n\n\n      Review      Praise for The Steal“A gripping ground-level narrative of the weeks after\nDonald Trump lost the popular vote…The Steal\nis a marvel of reporting: tightly wound…but also panoramic — a kaleidoscope of\nstories about how officials and activists in pivotal states like Arizona and\nGeorgia responded to Trump’s false claims of election fraud…The result is a\nnarrative that mirrors the way elections are actually run in the United States:\nstate by state, county by county, precinct by precinct.”—Washington Post“The\nunheralded and mostly unknown Republicans active in local politics who refused\nto go along with Trump’s lies—and played a key role in preserving American\ndemocracy—are the main subject of The Steal by the journalists Mark Bowden\nand Matthew Teague. At 230 pages of text, their book is a lean, fast-paced and\nimportant account of the chaotic final weeks of the Trump administration.”—New\nYork Times“Mark\nBowden and Matthew Teague have produced an indispensable and alarming\nground-level record of how Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election\nplayed out in precincts and ballot-counting centers in key states...In their\nterrific new book...the authors have used a stethoscope to examine the minutia\nof the American election process. The result is a thrilling and suspenseful\ncelebration of the survival of democracy...Bowden and Teague have performed a\nsingular service.”—The Guardian“The strength of The\nSteal, Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague’s meticulous micro-narrative\npublished on the one-year anniversary of the attacks, is that it zooms in\nthrough the forest and down to the grassroots, where a deluded assortment of\nself-styled patriots sought to subvert democracy in the name of saving it, and\na brave band of state and local officials—most of them Trump-supporting\nRepublicans, in fact—actually did save it.”—Air Mail“The Steal is a terrifying picture of the civil war that began on Election Day 2020. Here is the rancor, distrust, and deception that spun into the conspiracies and rabbit holes that Donald Trump has used to undermine truth, logic, and common sense. This is the behind-the-scenes\nworld of the Big Lie. The Steal reads like an edge-of-your-seat political thriller—one without a happy ending.” —Michael Wolff, New York Times bestselling author of Landslide“The Steal is brilliant, an incredibly important document reported without bile or self-righteousness. A book every conservative should read.”—P. J. 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