What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Paperback

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Paperback

by Thomas Frank
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Book Overview

by Thomas Frank (Author)

The New York Times bestseller
Winner of the Eugene V. Debs Award
Named the Best Political Book of the Year by The New York Times
With a New Afterword by the Author

Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "in a different league from most political books" (The New York Observer)

What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests?

With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansas-a place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most eager participants in the culture wars. Charting what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"--the popular revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment--Frank reveals how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans.

A brilliant analysis-and funny to boot-What's the Matter with Kansas? is a vivid portrait of an upside-down world where blue-collar patriots recite the Pledge while they strangle their life chances; where small farmers cast their votes for a Wall Street order that will eventually push them off their land; and where a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs has managed to convince the country that it speaks on behalf of the People.

Author Biography

Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, What's the Matter with Kansas?, and One Market Under God. A former opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and a monthly columnist for Harper's. He lives outside Washington, D.C.

Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 0.97 x 8.26 x 5.6 IN
Publication Date: May 01, 2005
ISBN9780805077742
Author Thomas Frank
PublisherMetropolitan Books
GenreNews & politics and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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