by Thomas Frank
It was an interesting book about how the Right used the traditional populist rhetoric of the Left to get people energized and turn their anger toward things like stopping health care reform rather than focusing on the bailouts. But as with What's the Matter with Kansas, I found myself wishing that F...
Three and a half stars.Frank makes some good points, but I wish it were a little bit more well-documented and a bit less sardonic.I've not yet read [b:What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America|54666|What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of A...
I don't often read current-affairs books, even when I already know I'll agree with them, because what I see in the daily headlines makes me mad enough. I picked up this one because an article in our local paper pointed out that Thomas Frank wrote much of it in the very Port Townsend Public Library w...
Outrage apparently doesn't lead to reason. At least according to this author there was no reasoned response to the outrage that followed the 2008 economic meltdown. This book reviews the political reactions to the sub-prime mortgage crisis from a liberal's point of view and finds plenty to critici...
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