The enigmatic spectacle of a large-scale collective suicide is always fascinating. Let's think about the hundreds of followers of Jim Jones sect who ingested, obedient, poison in his camp of the Guyana. In the economic terrain, it is happening today in Kansas today. That is the object of this excellent book by Thomas Frank. The simplicity of him should not prevent us from seeing the political analysis of him sharp as a blade. Fixing the attention of him in Kansas, cradle of the conservative populist revolt, Frank with successfully describes the fundamental paradox of the ideological construction of him: the gap, the lack of any cognitive connection, between economic interests and issues? Morales? What happens when the economy-based class opposition (poor farmers and workers against lawyers, bankers and large companies) is transposed / codified as the opposition between the honored Christian workers and good Americans on one side, and decadent progressives who drink coffee To the European and conduct foreign cars, defend abortion and homosexuality, make fun of the patriotic sacrifice and the simple lifestyle and? If there has been a book that should read who is interested in the strange thorses of today's conservative politics, that is it? What about Kansas ??? (Slavoj? I? EK)
Thomas Frank is the author of? The Conquest of Cool? (1998) About the capitalist re-appliance of the youth counterculture and? One Market Under God? (2000), which dissects the new economy and the idea of? Popular capitalism? The last book of him is titled? The Wrecking Crew? (2008) and describes the looting of the public under the Bush administration. Founder of the Satirical-Political Newspaper? The Baffler? In 1988, he writes regularly in the magazine? Harper? S?, In? The Wall Street Journal? and in? The New York Times?. He has published in Castilian in? Le Monde Diplomatique?,? Archipelago? And the old mole?. The interventions of it can be followed through the website of it: http://tcfrank.com/. He lives in Washington, D.C.
This edition of? What about Kansas? Includes Thomas Frank notes on the 2008 election campaign.