Interview with Thomas Franks

[Leilla]

What's Wrong With Kansas?
A Conversation With Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is one of the finest and wittiest writers on politics and culture today. He is a founding editor of The Baffler magazine, and author of the must-read books "One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy" and "The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism." His latest book is "What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" (Metropolitan Books, 2004). By far the best and most insightful book I've read in a couple of years. Frank uses Kansas as a metaphor for the rest of the country in order to examine why so many working and middle-class Americans consistently act against their own self-interests. The following is an interview with Thomas Frank:

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Frank0614.htm


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[SheilaT]

1. He was here in Kansas City

Tuesday night and got a huge crowd, at least 400. The sponsoring bookstore (Rainy Day Books of Fairway which is a truly awesome store) sold out of books at the event. I don't think that's ever happened to them before.

Franks said this was the largest crowd he'd ever had for a book reading. And in KANSAS CITY! I'm proud of all the liberal, progressive types here.