The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
 

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

by Thomas Frank

From the author of the landmark bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative misrule

In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington... (read more)

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i really enjoyed thomas frank's earlier book on "what's the matter with kansas," which has become somewhat of a classic in polisci. he does not disappoint here, giving us a cogent explanation of just what the conservatives have been up to (and it's not nice). it is particularly relevant to the financial meltdown (as if we could not see that one coming). something i would share with my students.

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