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

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

Frank, Thomas

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 080507774X
ISBN13: 9780805077742
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: May 1 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.26
Language: English

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.

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