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

MSRP$19.99 USD

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

Name: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America - Paperback
Brand: Metropolitan Books
SKU: 9780805077742
Price: 19.99 USD
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MSRP$19.99 USD

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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