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Description
One of “our most insightful social observers”* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“All that Kansas asks today is a little help nailing itself to that cross of gold.”
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“On the contrary; the side he takes is that of the most overbearing traditions of the church itself, its medieval popes, it's nineteenth century Spanish priests. It is these that he believes to have been left unfairly behind, that need to be defended. He lines up with the big guys; indeed, even as he walks the aisles of the local thrift store he dreams of being the biggest guy of them all.”
First Sentence
In the backlash imagination, America is always in the state of quasi-civil war: on one side are the unpretentious millions of authentic Americans; on the other stand the bookish, all-powerful liberals who run the country but are contemptuous of the tastes and beliefs of the people who inhabit it.
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- Thomas Frank (Author)
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