What's the Matter With America? - The Resistible Rise of the American Right

With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on the 'thirty-year backlash' - the common man's revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. He charts the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests; between workers and bosses; between populists and right-wingers. Taking the state of Kansas as a paradigm, Frank describes how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union. He also seeks to answer some broader riddles: why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? Frank reveals the true story, showing how voters have been persuaded to elevate 'values' and down-home qualities above hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis, and funny to boot, What's the Matter with America? presents a critical assessment of the state of America today.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Frank, Frank Thomas
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2011
• EAN: 9780099565093
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956509-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; USA, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, Fascism & Nazism, United States of America, USA, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies