Progressive writer Thomas Frank revisits his childhood home of Kansas to understand how the state went from the being the hotbed of populism in the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries to bastion of right-wing conservatism it is today.I found this volume to be very illuminating. Frank covers how wedge issues were used to get people to vote against their own interests and how the right constructs a narrative that keeps them in power despite not delivering on those very issues. Kansas is very educational about politics today.
Rating: B - Good
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