How Book Publishers Can Combat Misinformation
Seven Stories Press editor Greg Ruggiero (left) and University of Michigan law professor Barbara McQuade.
Publishers Weekly
In spring 2022, Seven Stories Press editor Greg Ruggiero read a New York Times op-ed that unnerved him. In it, University of Michigan law professor and former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade discussed the then-upcoming state elections and how several candidates for secretary of state—the office that generally oversees voting in each state—were seeking to use the post as “a platform to spread disinformation” about the security of U.S. elections.
“What I saw in Barb’s message was an effort to warn the country about the very real possibility of fascism in America,” Ruggiero said. A few days later, Ruggiero emailed McQuade and invited her to expand her op-ed into a book. McQuade replied somewhat bashfully, he recalled, having never written a book before. But an introductory phone call and a few brainstorming sessions later, the two had mapped out what would become Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America.
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