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What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. By Thomas Frank. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004306 pp. Notes, index. $24.00 cloth, $14.00 paper.
In his latest book, Thomas Frank takes a sweeping look at the current state of American politics by using the conservative revolution in Kansas as a microcosm of what conservative Republicans have done nationally. Frank directs our attention to the highly effective myths, language, and tactics developed by conservatives over the past forty years that have convinced many citizens apparently to vote against their own economic interests.
Frank's central thesis is that conservatives have remade the American political landscape and captured the hearts and minds of middle America...