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SUMMARY:Defining Values in American Politics - Thomas Frank
LOCATION:Sun Room\, Memorial Union
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 Thomas Frank is the author of What's the Matter with Kansas?
  How Conservatives Won the Heart of America?\,  and One Mark
 et Under God.  He received a doctorate in History from the U
 niversity of Chicago with his dissertation\, \"The Conquest 
 of Cool: Business Culture\, Counterculture\, and the Rise of
  Hip Consumerism\,\"  which became a national bestseller. He
  was also founding editor of The Baffler.Part of the Nationa
 l Affairs Series.\n--------------------\nBook Description\nO
 ne of \"our most insightful social observers\"* cracks the g
 reat political mystery of our time: how conservatism\, once 
 a marker of class privilege\, became the creed of millions o
 f ordinary Americans\n\nWith his acclaimed wit and acuity\, 
 Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the \"thirty-yea
 r backlash\"-the populist revolt against a supposedly libera
 l establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Repu
 blican Party's success in building the most unnatural of all
 iances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street bu
 siness interests\, workers and bosses\, populists and right-
 wingers.\n\nIn asking \"what 's the matter with Kansas?\"-ho
 w a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most c
 onservative states in the union-Frank\, a native Kansan and 
 onetime Republican\, seeks to answer some broader American r
 iddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic inter
 ests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And wha
 tever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questio
 ns are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by 
 examining pop conservatism-the bestsellers\, the radio talk 
 shows\, the vicious political combat-and showing how our lon
 g culture wars have left us with an electorate far more conc
 erned with their leaders' \"values\" and down-home qualities
  than with their stands on hard questions of policy.\n\nA br
 illiant analysis-and funny to boot-What's the Matter with Ka
 nsas? presents a critical assessment of who we are\, while t
 elling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys\, lawy
 ers\, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on 
 behalf of the People.\n\n*Los Angeles Times\n\nContact: lect
 ures@iastate.edu\nPhone: 515-294-9934
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