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Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank, founding editor of The Baffler, is the author of One Market Under God and The Conquest of Cool. He writes frequently for Harper’s, The Nation, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He lives in Washington, D.C.
What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
One of “our most insightful social observers” (Los Angeles Times) cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans.
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One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go ’90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone. With incisive analysis, passionate advocacy, and razor-sharp wit, he asks where we’re headed-and whether we’re going to like it when we get there.
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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, turned public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Stamped with Thomas Frank’s audacity, analytic brilliance, and wit, The Wrecking Crew is his most revelatory work yet—and his most important.
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