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

di Thomas Frank (Autore)

Vintage Publishing, 2004

With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank here turns his eye on what he calls 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 bluecollar 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 and, writing as a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: why do so many of us vote against our 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 - lavishly attributed to the current occupant of the White House - above hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis, and funny to boot, What's the Matter with America? - published in advance of the US Presidential elections - presents a critical assessment of the state of America today, while telling

• Autore: Thomas Frank
• Editore: Vintage Publishing
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 320 p.
• Dimensioni: 1 x 1 mm
• Peso: 406 gr.
• EAN: 9780436205392

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