It is a Republican Party/Swindler leadership that exploits the residents of fly-over country into self-cannibalizing themselves by supporting an ideology that dooms them to diminishing job opportunities and lower wages. Such a book is " What's the Matter with Kansas? How the Conservatives Won the Heart of America."įirst, you need to understand the basic premise of "What's the Matter." A young journalist, Thomas Frank, returns to his home state to ponder how Kansas - once a hot bed of agrarian populism - had evolved into a red state that epitomizes how middle class white America has been seduced by the lure of the right wing. (We are deluged with books, DVDs, CDs, and novelty items to consider as premiums.) After all, why would we want our readers to buy premiums that they wouldn't be interested in?īut even as we have the good fortune to read so many great books, we even have the more thrilling experience of occasionally coming across a relatively unpublicized book that dazzles us. One of the nicest things about BuzzFlash, as compared to book reviewers, is that we only have to write about and offer books that we like. This was originally posted in August, 2004.
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