Thomas Frank

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Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American political analyst, historian, journalist and columnist for Harper's Magazine. Frank is a historian of culture and ideas and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism and economics. His writing topics include the rhetoric and impact of the culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.

Books

• Listen, Liberal: How the Party of the People Learned to Love Inequality (2016) ISBN 978-1-6277-9539-5
• Frank, Thomas (1997). The conquest of cool : business culture, counterculture, and the rise of hip consumerism. University of Chicago Press.
• One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (2000) ISBN 0-385-49503-X
• New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right (2002) ISBN 0-9717575-4-2
• Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (2003) ISBN 0-393-32430-3
• What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004). Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-4299-0032-4
• What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right (2006) ISBN 0-09-949293-8
• The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (2008), Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 0-8050-7988-2
• Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (2011) ISBN 978-0-8050-9369-

Links

• The Trap (TV Documentary Series) Thomas Frank features in The Trap, a BBC documentary.
• What's the Matter with Kansas? 2009 documentary film produced by Joe Winston and Laura Cohen. The film was inspired by Frank's book of the same name; Frank appears in the film and receives a writing credit.
• "American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals" Includes interviews with Thomas Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics

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