Frank Thomas What`s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America 9780805077742

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Автор: Frank Thomas
Название: What`s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Перевод названия: Что случилось с Канзасом?
ISBN: 9780805077742
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация:

Политика и политический строй

Консерватизм и правоцентристские демократические идеологии

ISBN-10: 080507774X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.29 кг.
Дата издания: 31.05.2005
Язык: English
Размер: 209.80 x 142.20 x 24.60
Подзаголовок: How conservatives won the heart of america
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: With a New Afterword by the Author
The New York Times bestseller, praised as hilariously funny . . . the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests (Molly Ivins)
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), Whats 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 nations 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-Whats 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.
Thomas Frank, the founding editor of The Baffler, is the author of One Market Under God and The Conquest of Cool. He writes frequently for Harpers Magazine, The Nation, and Le Monde diplomatique. Winner of the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award A veteran author and journalist, and a native Kansan and former conservative, Thomas Frank here explores such fundamental American riddles as: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? Wheres the outrage over all the recent corporate thievery? Why do illusionary slights to the Ten Commandments trouble some people more than do the prospects of falling wages, or monopoly power, or the destruction of their very way of life?
This timely, well-written, and widely acclaimed book--equal parts brilliant political analysis and wry, readable memoir, and already deemed by some a contemporary classic--fully investigates these questions by examining the conservative revolution in the authors home state over the last several decades. Kansas, which has lately drawn the astonished attention of the world for its unlikely skirmishes over abortion and homosexuality, is in step with much of mid-America, Frank explains, in that its economic losers are even more committed to the Republican agenda than are its winners. Indeed, the Sunflower States low-wage slaughterhouse workers and struggling farm-town citizens today far outdo its real-estate millionaires and prosperous telecom executives in their dedication to a political program that can only wind up harming them. How, and why, did this happen--in Kansas and elsewhere throughout the United States?
Whats the Matter with Kansas? is a vivid, refreshingly witty portrait of an upside-down country where blue-collar patriots recite the Pledge while they strangle their life chances; where farmers cast votes for an economic order that will eventually push them off the land; and where a group of right-wing frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs has managed to convince the world that it speaks on behalf of Americas common people. Winner of the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award This fresh and engaging book stands out in the torrent of political screeds now pouring off the presses.--Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs The years most prescient political book.--Frank Rich, The New York Times
A] scathing and high-spirited polemic.--The New Yorker
This fresh and engaging book stands out in the

What`s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Frank Thomas