Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Tin Bidiremias. Let's face it, there's no shortage of books that explore the Trump presidency from the inside out and all the ways it changed American politics. And a new book by journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Clydman fits that bill, but it's also so much more. It's called

Find Me the Votes, and it's a deeply reported account to former President Trump's efforts to

overturn the 2020 election, and it's tightly focused on the state of Georgia. In it, Isakov and

Clydman document just how expansive Trump's efforts were to stay in power,

by applying a pressure campaign to overturn Georgia's election results.

Through their reporting, we meet a cast of characters who stemmed the anti-democratic impulses of the former president

and those trying to hold him to account, including Fani

Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney who's prosecuting the former president and who

herself has become a headline in recent weeks.

Issock and Clydman spoke about the book with All Things Considered host, Mary Louise Kelly.

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When writers decide to take on a book project about someone in the news, about developments still unfolding,

they take on a risk that by the time their book gets through edits and onto our

bookstore shelves, it may have been overtaken by events. Exhibit A is the new book, Find Me the Votes.

It is about Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and about the Georgia prosecutor

who decided to indict him over those efforts,

that prosecutor is Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, and her personal life is

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