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What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Paperback – May 1, 2005

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From The New Yorker

Kansas, once home to farmers who marched against "money power," is now solidly Republican. In Frank's scathing and high-spirited polemic, this fact is not just "the mystery of Kansas" but "the mystery of America." Dismissing much of the received punditry about the red-blue divide, Frank argues that the problem is the "systematic erasure of the economic" from discussions of class and its replacement with a notion of "authenticity," whereby "there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer." The leaders of this backlash, by focussing on cultural issues in which victory is probably impossible (abortion, "filth" on TV), feed their base's sense of grievance, abetted, Frank believes, by a "criminally stupid" Democratic strategy of triangulation. Liberals do not need to know more about nascar; they need to talk more about money and class.
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“The best political book of the year.” ―Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

“Frank is a formidable controversialist-imagine Michael Moore with a trained brain and an intellectual conscience.” ―
George F. Will, The Washington Post

“Brilliant.” ―
Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times

“Mr. Frank re-injects economic-class issues into the debate with sardonic vehemence.” ―
Jerome Weeks, The Dallas Morning News

“A searing piece of work . . . one of the most important political writings in years.” ―
The Boston Globe

“Dazzlingly insightful and wonderfully sardonic . . . Frank has made much sense of the world in this book.” ―
Chicago Tribune

“Impassioned, compelling . . . Frank's books mark him as one of the most insightful thinkers of the twenty-first century, four years into it.” ―
Houston Chronicle

“Very funny and very painful . . . Add another literary gold star after Thomas Frank's name.” ―
San Francisco Chronicle

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 080507774X
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador; First edition (May 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 322 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780805077742
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805077742
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.64 x 0.89 x 8.31 inches
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Questions frequently asked Thomas Frank.

- Kansas, really?

- Aren’t you one of these liberals that you’re always scolding?

- Is it true that President Trump uses “The Wrecking Crew” as a field manual?

- “The Baffler” – what’s that all about?

- You don’t look particularly cool. Why do you write about coolness?

- Why aren’t you, like, a college professor or something?

- Why all these books about politics? I mean, that’s hardly the right subject for a culture critic or whatever it is you call yourself.

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