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Thomas Frank (1) (1965–)

Author of What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

For other authors named Thomas Frank, see the disambiguation page.

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Works by Thomas Frank

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) 2,771 copies, 43 reviews
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (2016) 538 copies, 35 reviews
One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (2000) 534 copies, 3 reviews
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (2008) 482 copies, 8 reviews
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism (1997) 416 copies, 3 reviews
Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler (1997) — Editor; Introduction — 401 copies, 3 reviews
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (2012) 337 copies, 14 reviews
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism (2020) 160 copies, 10 reviews
Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society (2018) 120 copies, 4 reviews
Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (2003) — Editor — 82 copies
The Baffler, No. 14: The God That Sucked (2001) — Editor — 75 copies
The Baffler, No. 11: Mid-Cult Today (1998) — Editor — 54 copies
The Baffler, No. 10: The Folklore of Capitalism (1997) — Editor — 52 copies, 1 review
The Baffler, No. 12: Then Came Nylon (1999) — Editor — 48 copies
The Baffler, No. 13: Vox Populoid (1999) — Editor — 45 copies
The Baffler, No. 16: NASCAR, How Proud a Sound! (2003) — Editor — 41 copies
The Baffler, No. 15: Civilization with a Krag (2002) — Editor — 40 copies
The Baffler, No. 9: An Injury to All (1997) — Editor — 34 copies, 1 review
No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler (2014) — Editor — 28 copies
The Baffler, No. 8: The Cultural Miracle (1995) — Editor — 25 copies, 1 review
The Baffler, No. 17: Superslayer Storybook (2006) — Editor — 22 copies
New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right (2002) 17 copies
The Baffler, No. 7: The City in the Age of Information (1995) — Editor — 16 copies, 1 review
The Baffler, No. 6: Dark Age (1994) — Editor — 13 copies, 1 review
The Baffler, No. 18: Margin Call (2010) — Editor — 12 copies, 2 reviews
The Baffler, No. 34: The Snare of Preparation (2017) 7 copies, 1 review
The Baffler, No. 5: Alternative to What? (1993) — Editor — 5 copies
The Baffler, No. 4: Twenty-nothing (1993) — Editor — 5 copies, 1 review
The Empty Centre 1 copy
What's the Matter with America?: The Resistible Rise of the American Right 1 copy
Paul Krugman got the working class wrong. That had consequences 1 copy
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The Best American Political Writing 2004 (2004) — Contributor — 41 copies, 1 review
The Best American Political Writing 2005 (2005) — Contributor — 37 copies

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Canonical name
Frank, Thomas
Legal name
Frank, Thomas Carr
Birthdate
1965-03-21
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Places of residence
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Mission Hills, Kansas, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Education
University of Kansas
University of Virginia (BA|1988)
University of Chicago (MA|1990|Ph.D|1994)
Occupations
political analyst
historian
journalist
Organizations
The Baffler (founder, editor)
The Wall Street Journal
Harper's Magazine
Awards and honors
Lannan Literary Fellowship (2004)
Eugene Debs Award (2005)
Agent
Joe Spieler
Short biography
Thomas Frank is a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's. Frank is founding editor of The Baffler and writes regularly for Salon. He lives outside Washington, D.C. [adapted from Listen, Liberal (2016)]

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Rendezvous With Oblivion: Reports From A Sinking… by Thomas Frank
A collection of articles written during the Obama era. He is always entertaining and has a pretty good perspective.
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vive_livre | 3 other reviews | Aug 4, 2024 |
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
Damn, this guy is such a good writer.
 
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Moshepit20 | 42 other reviews | Mar 19, 2024 |
What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank
(2004)Non-Fiction. political analysis of why a state like Kansas would vote so strongly Republican, when most of the population would benefit more from Democrats being in office.
 
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derailer | 42 other reviews | Jan 25, 2024 |
The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism by Thomas Frank
I'm not sure how his head didn't explode from cognitive dissonance as he wrote this book. I am well over half-way done, and I'm trying to connect my own experiences with politics (beginning in the late 70s during the Carter era) to his writing. I can't. I realize that he's focussed on Populism, but heck no.
 
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