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Praise for What’s the Matter with Kansas? “Brilliant.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times “Frank is witty and shrewd, a genial, informative political tour guide of the sort we desperately need today.” —Corey Robin, The Washington Post “Smart, convincing . . . Frank writes with the biting edge of a world-class polemicist.” —Chris Suellentrop, Los Angeles Times “The political book of 2004.” —The Village Voice “This is the true story of how conservatives punk’d a nation. Tom Frank has stripped the right-wing hustle to its core: it is bread and circuses—only without the bread. Written like a poem, every line in its perfect place, What’s the Matter with Kansas? is the best new book I’ve read in years, on any subject.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus “Scathing and high-spirited.” —The New Yorker “A wonderfully readable book, beautifully conceived, engaging throughout.” —Davie Denison, The Texas Observer “A funny, rousing, fascinating cry from America’s heartland.” —Max Grossman, New York Post “A thoughtful analysis of Kansas by a native son, peppered with personal remembrances and an acerbic wit.” —Shashank Bengali, The Kansas City Star “A wise reporter and a splendid wit, Tom Frank understands the grassroots Right as well as anyone in America. He is the second coming of H. L. Mencken—but with much better politics.” —Michael Kazin, author of The Populist Persuasion: An American History “A brilliant book, one of the best so far this decade on American politics.” —George Scialabba, The Nation “Shrewd and pointed . . . irresistibly entertaining.” —LA Weekly “Frank is one of the wittiest, most insightful observers of culture and politics writing today.” —Jim Miller, The San Diego Union-Tribune “Hilarious, angry . . . riveting . . . a serious, daring, and largely convincing exploration of a question most commentators approach with facile generalities.” —Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com “Frank . . . is the most incisive writer on contemporary America.” —Nick Cohen, The Guardian (England) “Lively, heartfelt.” —Jason Epstein, The New York Review of Books “Bracing reading . . . animated, angry, and without guile.” —Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative “A tour de force . . . witty, precise.” —Matt Love, The Oregonian “Frank’s willingness to scold his own side; his irreverence and his facility with language; his ability to make the connections that other writers fail to make—all of this puts What’s the Matter with Kansas? in a different league from most of the political books that have come out in recent years.” —Kevin Canfield, The New York Observer “Opinionated, defiant, thought-provoking . . . a wonderful telling of political change in Kansas on both a personal and social level.” —Paul Johnson, Lawrence Journal-World “Mr. Frank re-injects economic-class issues into the debate with sardonic vehemence.” —Jerome Weeks, The Dallas Morning News “Fresh and engaging.” —Foreign Affairs “Hilariously funny . . . I promise y’all, this is the only way to understand why so many Americans have decided to vote against their own economic and political interests. And Frank explores the subject with scholarship, understanding, passion and—thank you, Mark Twain—such tart humor.” —Molly Ivins ALSO BY THOMAS FRANK One Market Under God The Conquest of Cool Commodify Your Dissent (coeditor) What’s the Matter with KANSAS? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America T F HOMAS RANK Owl Books Henry Holt and Company, LLC Publishers since 1866 175 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10010 www.henryholt.com An Owl Book® and ® are registered trademarks of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright © 2004 by Thomas Frank Afterword copyright © 2005 by Thomas Frank Lyrics from “Sex Drive” by Giessmann, Goffrier, Klaus, and Nichols Copyright © 1979 by The Embarrassment / Embarrassment Songs BMI All rights reserved. Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn and Company Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frank, Thomas, 1965-What’s the matter with Kansas? : how conservatives won the heart of America / Thomas Frank—1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7774-2 ISBN-10: 0-8050-7774-X 1. Conservatism—Kansas. 2. Kansas—Politics and government—1951-I. Title. F686.2.F73 2004 978.1‘033—dc22 2004044824 Henry Holt books are available for special promotions and premiums. For details contact: Director, Special Markets. First published in hardcover in 2004 by Metropolitan Books First Owl Books Edition 2005 Designed by Paula Russell Szafranski Map by Patrick W. Welch Printed in the United States of America 5 7 9 10 8 6 Oh, Kansas fools! Poor Kansas fools! The banker makes of you a tool. —Populist song, 1892
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