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| birth_name = Thomas Carr Frank<br />
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| birth_place = [[Kansas City, Missouri]], [[United States of America]]<br />
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| alma_mater = [[University of Kansas]], [[University of Virginia]], [[University of Chicago]]<br />
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| known_for = Co-founder of [[The Baffler]], culture war author<br />
| notable_works = ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]''<br />
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'''Thomas Carr Frank''' (born March 21, 1965) is an [[United States|American]] political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited ''[[The Baffler]]''. He has written several books, most notably ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'' (2004) and ''[[Listen, Liberal]]'' (2016). <br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
Frank was originally a [[College Republican]],<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/16.Thomas_Frank</ref> He is now critical of conservatism, especially the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|presidency]] of [[George W. Bush]]. Frank's thesis of his book ''[[The Wrecking Crew (book)|The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' as "Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html |title=Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 1, 2008 |website=pbs.org |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 3, 2016 |quote=}}</ref><br />
<br />
Frank's other writings include essays for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', ''[[Bookforum]]'', and the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His book ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'', published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.<br />
<br />
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas. He analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of [[culture war]]s in American political life and the relationship between [[politics of the United States|politics]] and [[culture of the United States|culture]] in the United States.<br />
<br />
Since December 2010, Frank has written the monthly "Easy Chair" column for ''Harper's Magazine'', alternating bi-monthly with [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=187979</ref><br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Frank was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, [[Mission Hills, Kansas]]. Frank graduated from [[Shawnee Mission East High School]]. He later attended the [[University of Kansas]]. He also attended the [[University of Virginia]] and the [[University of Chicago]], where he received a [[PhD|doctorate]] in [[history]] in 1994. He lives in [[Washington, DC]], with his wife and children. <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |author=Frank, Thomas |authorlink= |authormask= |title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1997}}<br />
*''[[One Market Under God]]: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-385-49503-X}}<br />
*''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-9717575-4-2}}<br />
*''Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32430-3}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004). Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-4299-0032-4}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-09-949293-8}}<br />
*''[[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' (2008), Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|0-8050-7988-2}}<br />
*''Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9369-8}}<br />
*''[[Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9539-5}}<br />
<br />
===Essays and reporting===<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Frank, Thomas|date=November 2012 |title=All the rage |department=Easy Chair |journal=[[Harper's]] |volume=325 |issue=1950 |pages=6, 8–9}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap (TV Documentary Series)]]'': Frank features in the [[BBC]] documentary.<br />
* ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas? (film)|What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'', a 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.<br />
* "[[American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals]]" includes interviews with Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
{{wikiquote}}<br />
*[http://www.tcfrank.com/ Tom Frank official website]<br />
*[http://listenliberal.com Website for Thomas Frank's book ''Listen, Liberal'']<br />
*[http://us.macmillan.com/author/thomasfrank Thomas Frank Author Page, Henry Holt and Company]<br />
*{{C-SPAN|Thomas Frank}}<br />
*[http://harpers.org/subjects/ThomasFrank Thomas Frank column index in ''Harper's'']<br />
*[https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-matter-whats-matter-kansas/ "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas" &#91;sic&#93;]; ''[[The Nation]]''; October 11, 2005<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/%7ebartels/kansas.pdf Study] (pdf) argues that the white working class hasn't moved right and that "moral values" are not pushing them to vote Republican.{{Dead link|date=July 2016}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095606/http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf Class is Dismissed] Thomas Frank's reply to Bartels' study, "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas".<br />
*[http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#2 ''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right''] 26 page book/pamphlet put out by [[Prickly Paradigm]] in Fall 2002.<br />
*[http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/frank.html PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers] An interview on ''What's the Matter With Kansas?''<br />
*{{IMDb name|1839388}}<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5nd3aBtkU Frank giving speech at "Hostile Takeover"]<br />
*[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop Opinion article in the ''Wall Street Journal'' written by Frank]<br />
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-667877812822137165&hl=en VIDEO: Thomas Frank, Aug. 14, 2008, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule], presentation at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, from recent book tour.<br />
*[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/whats-matter-kansas-thomas-franks-best-selling-nov/ 2009 Thomas Frank interview] with Jon Niccum<br />
*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/pity-the-billionaire-thomas-frank VIDEO: Thomas Frank discusses ''Pity the Billionaire'']{{Dead link|date=May 2017}} on January 5, 2012, on WGBH's Forum Network.<br />
*[http://hnn.us/articles/pity-poor-billionaire-interview-thomas-frank Thomas Frank interview] on February 13, 2012, on the History News Network.<br />
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'''Thomas Carr Frank''' (born March 21, 1965) is an [[United States|American]] political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited ''[[The Baffler]]''. He has written several books, most notably ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'' (2004) and ''[[Listen, Liberal]]'' (2016). <br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
Frank was originally a [[College Republican]],<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/16.Thomas_Frank</ref> He is now critical of conservatism, especially the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|presidency]] of [[George W. Bush]]. Frank's thesis of his book ''[[The Wrecking Crew (book)|The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' as "Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html |title=Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 1, 2008 |website=pbs.org |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 3, 2016 |quote=}}</ref><br />
<br />
Frank's other writings include essays for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', ''[[Bookforum]]'', and the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His book ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'', published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.<br />
<br />
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas. He analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of [[culture war]]s in American political life and the relationship between [[politics of the United States|politics]] and [[culture of the United States|culture]] in the United States.<br />
<br />
Since December 2010, Frank has written the monthly "Easy Chair" column for ''Harper's Magazine'', alternating bi-monthly with [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=187979</ref><br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Frank was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, [[Mission Hills, Kansas]]. Frank graduated from [[Shawnee Mission East High School]]. He later attended the [[University of Kansas]]. He also attended the [[University of Virginia]] and the [[University of Chicago]], where he received a [[PhD|doctorate]] in [[history]] in 1994. He lives in [[Washington, DC]], with his wife and children. <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
{{Expand list|date=July 2015}}<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |author=Frank, Thomas |authorlink= |authormask= |title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1997}}<br />
*''[[One Market Under God]]: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-385-49503-X}}<br />
*''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-9717575-4-2}}<br />
*''Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32430-3}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004). Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-4299-0032-4}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-09-949293-8}}<br />
*''[[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' (2008), Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|0-8050-7988-2}}<br />
*''Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9369-8}}<br />
*''[[Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9539-5}}<br />
<br />
===Essays and reporting===<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Frank, Thomas|date=November 2012 |title=All the rage |department=Easy Chair |journal=[[Harper's]] |volume=325 |issue=1950 |pages=6, 8–9}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap (TV Documentary Series)]]'': Frank features in the [[BBC]] documentary.<br />
* ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas? (film)|What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'', a 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.<br />
* "[[American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals]]" includes interviews with Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
{{wikiquote}}<br />
*[http://www.tcfrank.com/ Tom Frank official website]<br />
*[http://listenliberal.com Website for Thomas Frank's book ''Listen, Liberal'']<br />
*[http://us.macmillan.com/author/thomasfrank Thomas Frank Author Page, Henry Holt and Company]<br />
*{{C-SPAN|Thomas Frank}}<br />
*[http://harpers.org/subjects/ThomasFrank Thomas Frank column index in ''Harper's'']<br />
*[https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-matter-whats-matter-kansas/ "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas" &#91;sic&#93;]; ''[[The Nation]]''; October 11, 2005<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/%7ebartels/kansas.pdf Study] (pdf) argues that the white working class hasn't moved right and that "moral values" are not pushing them to vote Republican.{{Dead link|date=July 2016}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095606/http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf Class is Dismissed] Thomas Frank's reply to Bartels' study, "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas".<br />
*[http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#2 ''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right''] 26 page book/pamphlet put out by [[Prickly Paradigm]] in Fall 2002.<br />
*[http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/frank.html PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers] An interview on ''What's the Matter With Kansas?''<br />
*{{IMDb name|1839388}}<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5nd3aBtkU Frank giving speech at "Hostile Takeover"]<br />
*[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop Opinion article in the ''Wall Street Journal'' written by Frank]<br />
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-667877812822137165&hl=en VIDEO: Thomas Frank, Aug. 14, 2008, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule], presentation at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, from recent book tour.<br />
*[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/whats-matter-kansas-thomas-franks-best-selling-nov/ 2009 Thomas Frank interview] with Jon Niccum<br />
*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/pity-the-billionaire-thomas-frank VIDEO: Thomas Frank discusses ''Pity the Billionaire'']{{Dead link|date=May 2017}} on January 5, 2012, on WGBH's Forum Network.<br />
*[http://hnn.us/articles/pity-poor-billionaire-interview-thomas-frank Thomas Frank interview] on February 13, 2012, on the History News Network.<br />
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'''Thomas Carr Frank''' (born March 21, 1965) is an [[United States|American]] political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited ''[[The Baffler]]''. He has written several books, most notably ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'' (2004) and ''[[Listen, Liberal]]'' (2016). <br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
Frank was originally a [[College Republican]],<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/16.Thomas_Frank</ref> He is now critical of conservatism, especially the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|presidency]] of [[George W. Bush]]. Frank summarized the thesis of his book ''[[The Wrecking Crew (book)|The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' as "Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html |title=Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 1, 2008 |website=pbs.org |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 3, 2016 |quote=}}</ref><br />
<br />
Frank's other writings include essays for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', ''[[Bookforum]]'', and the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His book ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'', published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.<br />
<br />
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas. He analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of [[culture war]]s in American political life and the relationship between [[politics of the United States|politics]] and [[culture of the United States|culture]] in the United States.<br />
<br />
Since December 2010, Frank has written the monthly "Easy Chair" column for ''Harper's Magazine'', alternating bi-monthly with [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=187979</ref><br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Frank was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, [[Mission Hills, Kansas]]. Frank graduated from [[Shawnee Mission East High School]]. He later attended the [[University of Kansas]]. He also attended the [[University of Virginia]] and the [[University of Chicago]], where he received a [[PhD|doctorate]] in [[history]] in 1994. He lives in [[Washington, DC]], with his wife and children. <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
{{Expand list|date=July 2015}}<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |author=Frank, Thomas |authorlink= |authormask= |title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1997}}<br />
*''[[One Market Under God]]: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-385-49503-X}}<br />
*''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-9717575-4-2}}<br />
*''Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32430-3}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004). Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-4299-0032-4}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-09-949293-8}}<br />
*''[[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' (2008), Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|0-8050-7988-2}}<br />
*''Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9369-8}}<br />
*''[[Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9539-5}}<br />
<br />
===Essays and reporting===<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Frank, Thomas|date=November 2012 |title=All the rage |department=Easy Chair |journal=[[Harper's]] |volume=325 |issue=1950 |pages=6, 8–9}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap (TV Documentary Series)]]'': Frank features in the [[BBC]] documentary.<br />
* ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas? (film)|What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'', a 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.<br />
* "[[American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals]]" includes interviews with Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
{{wikiquote}}<br />
*[http://www.tcfrank.com/ Tom Frank official website]<br />
*[http://listenliberal.com Website for Thomas Frank's book ''Listen, Liberal'']<br />
*[http://us.macmillan.com/author/thomasfrank Thomas Frank Author Page, Henry Holt and Company]<br />
*{{C-SPAN|Thomas Frank}}<br />
*[http://harpers.org/subjects/ThomasFrank Thomas Frank column index in ''Harper's'']<br />
*[https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-matter-whats-matter-kansas/ "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas" &#91;sic&#93;]; ''[[The Nation]]''; October 11, 2005<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/%7ebartels/kansas.pdf Study] (pdf) argues that the white working class hasn't moved right and that "moral values" are not pushing them to vote Republican.{{Dead link|date=July 2016}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095606/http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf Class is Dismissed] Thomas Frank's reply to Bartels' study, "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas".<br />
*[http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#2 ''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right''] 26 page book/pamphlet put out by [[Prickly Paradigm]] in Fall 2002.<br />
*[http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/frank.html PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers] An interview on ''What's the Matter With Kansas?''<br />
*{{IMDb name|1839388}}<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5nd3aBtkU Frank giving speech at "Hostile Takeover"]<br />
*[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop Opinion article in the ''Wall Street Journal'' written by Frank]<br />
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-667877812822137165&hl=en VIDEO: Thomas Frank, Aug. 14, 2008, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule], presentation at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, from recent book tour.<br />
*[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/whats-matter-kansas-thomas-franks-best-selling-nov/ 2009 Thomas Frank interview] with Jon Niccum<br />
*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/pity-the-billionaire-thomas-frank VIDEO: Thomas Frank discusses ''Pity the Billionaire'']{{Dead link|date=May 2017}} on January 5, 2012, on WGBH's Forum Network.<br />
*[http://hnn.us/articles/pity-poor-billionaire-interview-thomas-frank Thomas Frank interview] on February 13, 2012, on the History News Network.<br />
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'''Thomas Carr Frank''' (born March 21, 1965) is an [[United States|American]] political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited ''[[The Baffler]]''. He has written several books, most notably ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'' (2004) and ''[[Listen, Liberal]]'' (2016). <br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
Frank was a [[College Republican]],<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/16.Thomas_Frank</ref> but he has come to be critical of conservatism, especially the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|presidency]] of [[George W. Bush]]. Frank summarized the thesis of his book ''[[The Wrecking Crew (book)|The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' as "Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html |title=Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 1, 2008 |website=pbs.org |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 3, 2016 |quote=}}</ref><br />
<br />
Frank's other writings include essays for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', ''[[Bookforum]]'', and the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His book ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'', published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.<br />
<br />
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas. He analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of [[culture war]]s in American political life and the relationship between [[politics of the United States|politics]] and [[culture of the United States|culture]] in the United States.<br />
<br />
Since December 2010, Frank has written the monthly "Easy Chair" column for ''Harper's Magazine'', alternating bi-monthly with [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=187979</ref><br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Frank was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, [[Mission Hills, Kansas]]. Frank graduated from [[Shawnee Mission East High School]]. He later attended the [[University of Kansas]]. He also attended the [[University of Virginia]] and the [[University of Chicago]], where he received a [[PhD|doctorate]] in [[history]] in 1994. He lives in [[Washington, DC]], with his wife and children. <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
{{Expand list|date=July 2015}}<br />
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===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |author=Frank, Thomas |authorlink= |authormask= |title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1997}}<br />
*''[[One Market Under God]]: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-385-49503-X}}<br />
*''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-9717575-4-2}}<br />
*''Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32430-3}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004). Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-4299-0032-4}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-09-949293-8}}<br />
*''[[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' (2008), Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|0-8050-7988-2}}<br />
*''Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9369-8}}<br />
*''[[Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9539-5}}<br />
<br />
===Essays and reporting===<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Frank, Thomas|date=November 2012 |title=All the rage |department=Easy Chair |journal=[[Harper's]] |volume=325 |issue=1950 |pages=6, 8–9}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap (TV Documentary Series)]]'': Frank features in the [[BBC]] documentary.<br />
* ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas? (film)|What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'', a 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.<br />
* "[[American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals]]" includes interviews with Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{wikiquote}}<br />
*[http://www.tcfrank.com/ Tom Frank official website]<br />
*[http://listenliberal.com Website for Thomas Frank's book ''Listen, Liberal'']<br />
*[http://us.macmillan.com/author/thomasfrank Thomas Frank Author Page, Henry Holt and Company]<br />
*{{C-SPAN|Thomas Frank}}<br />
*[http://harpers.org/subjects/ThomasFrank Thomas Frank column index in ''Harper's'']<br />
*[https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-matter-whats-matter-kansas/ "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas" &#91;sic&#93;]; ''[[The Nation]]''; October 11, 2005<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/%7ebartels/kansas.pdf Study] (pdf) argues that the white working class hasn't moved right and that "moral values" are not pushing them to vote Republican.{{Dead link|date=July 2016}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095606/http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf Class is Dismissed] Thomas Frank's reply to Bartels' study, "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas".<br />
*[http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#2 ''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right''] 26 page book/pamphlet put out by [[Prickly Paradigm]] in Fall 2002.<br />
*[http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/frank.html PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers] An interview on ''What's the Matter With Kansas?''<br />
*{{IMDb name|1839388}}<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5nd3aBtkU Frank giving speech at "Hostile Takeover"]<br />
*[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop Opinion article in the ''Wall Street Journal'' written by Frank]<br />
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-667877812822137165&hl=en VIDEO: Thomas Frank, Aug. 14, 2008, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule], presentation at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, from recent book tour.<br />
*[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/whats-matter-kansas-thomas-franks-best-selling-nov/ 2009 Thomas Frank interview] with Jon Niccum<br />
*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/pity-the-billionaire-thomas-frank VIDEO: Thomas Frank discusses ''Pity the Billionaire'']{{Dead link|date=May 2017}} on January 5, 2012, on WGBH's Forum Network.<br />
*[http://hnn.us/articles/pity-poor-billionaire-interview-thomas-frank Thomas Frank interview] on February 13, 2012, on the History News Network.<br />
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'''Thomas Carr Frank''' (born March 21, 1965) is an [[United States|American]] political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited ''[[The Baffler]]''. He has written several books, most notably ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'' (2004) and ''[[Listen, Liberal]]'' (2016). <br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
Frank was a [[College Republican]],<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/16.Thomas_Frank</ref> but he has come to be critical of conservatism, especially the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|presidency]] of [[George W. Bush]]. Frank summarized the thesis of his book ''[[The Wrecking Crew (book)|The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' as "Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html |title=Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 1, 2008 |website=pbs.org |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 3, 2016 |quote=}}</ref><br />
<br />
Frank's other writings include essays for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', ''[[Bookforum]]'', and the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His book ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'', published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.<br />
<br />
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas. He analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of [[culture war]]s in American political life and the relationship between [[politics of the United States|politics]] and [[culture of the United States|culture]] in the United States.<br />
<br />
Since December 2010, Frank has written the monthly "Easy Chair" column for ''Harper's Magazine'', alternating bi-monthly with [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=187979</ref><br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Frank was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, [[Mission Hills, Kansas]]. Frank graduated from [[Shawnee Mission East High School]]. He later attended the [[University of Kansas]]. He also attended the [[University of Virginia]] and the [[University of Chicago]], where he received a [[PhD|doctorate]] in [[history]] in 1994. He lives in [[Washington, DC]], with his wife and children. <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
{{Expand list|date=July 2015}}<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |author=Frank, Thomas |authorlink= |authormask= |title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1997}}<br />
*''[[One Market Under God]]: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-385-49503-X}}<br />
*''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-9717575-4-2}}<br />
*''Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32430-3}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004). Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-4299-0032-4}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-09-949293-8}}<br />
*''[[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' (2008), Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|0-8050-7988-2}}<br />
*''Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9369-8}}<br />
*''[[Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9539-5}}<br />
<br />
===Essays and reporting===<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Frank, Thomas|date=November 2012 |title=All the rage |department=Easy Chair |journal=[[Harper's]] |volume=325 |issue=1950 |pages=6, 8–9}}<br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap (TV Documentary Series)]]'': Frank features in the [[BBC]] documentary.<br />
* ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas? (film)|What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'', a 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.<br />
* "[[American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals]]" includes interviews with Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics.<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{reflist|30em}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
{{wikiquote}}<br />
*[http://www.tcfrank.com/ Tom Frank official website]<br />
*[http://listenliberal.com Website for Thomas Frank's book ''Listen, Liberal'']<br />
*[http://us.macmillan.com/author/thomasfrank Thomas Frank Author Page, Henry Holt and Company]<br />
*{{C-SPAN|Thomas Frank}}<br />
*[http://harpers.org/subjects/ThomasFrank Thomas Frank column index in ''Harper's'']<br />
*[https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-matter-whats-matter-kansas/ "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas" &#91;sic&#93;]; ''[[The Nation]]''; October 11, 2005<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/%7ebartels/kansas.pdf Study] (pdf) argues that the white working class hasn't moved right and that "moral values" are not pushing them to vote Republican.{{Dead link|date=July 2016}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095606/http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf Class is Dismissed] Thomas Frank's reply to Bartels' study, "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas".<br />
*[http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#2 ''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right''] 26 page book/pamphlet put out by [[Prickly Paradigm]] in Fall 2002.<br />
*[http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/frank.html PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers] An interview on ''What's the Matter With Kansas?''<br />
*{{IMDb name|1839388}}<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5nd3aBtkU Frank giving speech at "Hostile Takeover"]<br />
*[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop Opinion article in the ''Wall Street Journal'' written by Frank]<br />
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-667877812822137165&hl=en VIDEO: Thomas Frank, Aug. 14, 2008, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule], presentation at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, from recent book tour.<br />
*[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/whats-matter-kansas-thomas-franks-best-selling-nov/ 2009 Thomas Frank interview] with Jon Niccum<br />
*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/pity-the-billionaire-thomas-frank VIDEO: Thomas Frank discusses ''Pity the Billionaire'']{{Dead link|date=May 2017}} on January 5, 2012, on WGBH's Forum Network.<br />
*[http://hnn.us/articles/pity-poor-billionaire-interview-thomas-frank Thomas Frank interview] on February 13, 2012, on the History News Network.<br />
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'''Thomas Carr Frank''' (born March 21, 1965) is an [[United States|American]] political analyst, historian, journalist, and columnist for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''. He wrote "The Tilting Yard" column in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from 2008 to 2010, and he co-founded and edited ''[[The Baffler]]''. He has written several books, most notably ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'' (2004) and ''[[Listen, Liberal]]'' (2016). <br />
<br />
==Politics==<br />
Frank was a [[College Republican]],<ref>http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/16.Thomas_Frank</ref> but he has come to be critical of conservatism, especially the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|presidency]] of [[George W. Bush]]. Frank summarized the thesis of his book ''[[The Wrecking Crew (book)|The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' as "Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08012008/profile3.html |title=Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 1, 2008 |website=pbs.org |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 3, 2016 |quote=}}</ref><br />
<br />
Frank's other writings include essays for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Le Monde diplomatique]]'', ''[[Bookforum]]'', and the ''[[Financial Times]]''. His book ''What's the Matter with Kansas?'', published in 2004, earned him nationwide and international recognition.<br />
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{{Quotation|<br />
* "The backlash…is a crusade in which one's material interests are suspended in favor of vague cultural grievances that are all-important and yet incapable of ever being assuaged."<ref>Frank (2004), 121</ref><br />
* "While earlier forms of conservatism emphasized fiscal sobriety, the backlash mobilizes voters with explosive social issues...which is then married to pro-business economics."<ref>Frank (2004), 5</ref><br />
* "To [conservative] backlash writers, the operations of business are simply not a legitimate subject of social criticism. In the backlash mind, business is natural; it is normal; it is beyond politics."<ref>Frank (2004), 126</ref><br />
* "Backlash culture abounds with tall tales of liberals out of control, with hippies spitting on [Vietnam War] veterans, with [[Jane Fonda]] narking on POWs to their Vietnamese captors..."<ref>Frank (2004), 125</ref><br />
* "Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think."<ref>Frank (2004), 126</ref><br />
* "The backlash is a theory of how the political world works, but it also provides a ready-made identity in which the glamour of authenticity, combined with the narcissism of victimhood is available to almost anyone."<ref>Frank (2004), 157, 158</ref><br />
* "To be a populist conservative is to be a fatalist...where the liberal stranglehold on life can never be broken. This is a curious set of beliefs for a coalition that quite literally rules American politics."<ref>Frank (2004), 125</ref><br />
* "Ignoring one's economic self-interest may seem a suicidal move to you and me, but viewed in a different way it is an act of noble self-denial, a sacrifice to a holier cause."<ref>Frank (2004), 168</ref><br />
* "...the great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war."<ref>Frank (2004), 128</ref><br />
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| Thomas Frank from ''What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004) }}<br />
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* "The big government that [conservatives] rail against is, by and large, their government. For a political faction to represent itself as a rebellion against a government for which it is itself responsible for may strike you as a supremely cynical maneuver."<ref>Frank, 2008, 32</ref><br />
| Thomas Frank from ''The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule'' (2008)}}<br />
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Frank is a historian of culture and ideas. He analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of [[culture war]]s in American political life and the relationship between [[politics of the United States|politics]] and [[culture of the United States|culture]] in the United States.<br />
<br />
Since December 2010, Frank has written the monthly "Easy Chair" column for ''Harper's Magazine'', alternating bi-monthly with [[Rebecca Solnit]].<ref>http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=187979</ref><br />
<br />
==Personal life==<br />
Frank was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri]], in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, [[Mission Hills, Kansas]]. Frank graduated from [[Shawnee Mission East High School]]. He later attended the [[University of Kansas]]. He also attended the [[University of Virginia]] and the [[University of Chicago]], where he received a [[PhD|doctorate]] in [[history]] in 1994. He lives in [[Washington, DC]], with his wife and children. <br />
<br />
==Bibliography==<br />
{{Expand list|date=July 2015}}<br />
<br />
===Books===<br />
*{{cite book |author=Frank, Thomas |authorlink= |authormask= |title=The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=1997}}<br />
*''[[One Market Under God]]: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'' (2000) {{ISBN|0-385-49503-X}}<br />
*''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right'' (2002) {{ISBN|0-9717575-4-2}}<br />
*''Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler'' (2003) {{ISBN|0-393-32430-3}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America'' (2004). Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-4299-0032-4}}<br />
*''What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right'' (2006) {{ISBN|0-09-949293-8}}<br />
*''[[The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule]]'' (2008), Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|0-8050-7988-2}}<br />
*''Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right'' (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-9369-8}}<br />
*''[[Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?]]'' (2016) {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9539-5}}<br />
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===Essays and reporting===<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Frank, Thomas|date=November 2012 |title=All the rage |department=Easy Chair |journal=[[Harper's]] |volume=325 |issue=1950 |pages=6, 8–9}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[The Trap (television documentary series)|The Trap (TV Documentary Series)]]'': Frank features in the [[BBC]] documentary.<br />
* ''[[What's the Matter with Kansas? (film)|What's the Matter with Kansas?]]'', a 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.<br />
* "[[American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals]]" includes interviews with Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://www.tcfrank.com/ Tom Frank official website]<br />
*[http://listenliberal.com Website for Thomas Frank's book ''Listen, Liberal'']<br />
*[http://us.macmillan.com/author/thomasfrank Thomas Frank Author Page, Henry Holt and Company]<br />
*{{C-SPAN|Thomas Frank}}<br />
*[http://harpers.org/subjects/ThomasFrank Thomas Frank column index in ''Harper's'']<br />
*[https://www.thenation.com/article/whats-matter-whats-matter-kansas/ "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas" &#91;sic&#93;]; ''[[The Nation]]''; October 11, 2005<br />
*[http://www.princeton.edu/%7ebartels/kansas.pdf Study] (pdf) argues that the white working class hasn't moved right and that "moral values" are not pushing them to vote Republican.{{Dead link|date=July 2016}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080309095606/http://www.tcfrank.com/dismissd.pdf Class is Dismissed] Thomas Frank's reply to Bartels' study, "What's The Matter With What's The Matter With Kansas".<br />
*[http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#2 ''New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right''] 26 page book/pamphlet put out by [[Prickly Paradigm]] in Fall 2002.<br />
*[http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/frank.html PBS's NOW with Bill Moyers] An interview on ''What's the Matter With Kansas?''<br />
*{{IMDb name|1839388}}<br />
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5nd3aBtkU Frank giving speech at "Hostile Takeover"]<br />
*[https://online.wsj.com/article/SB120873309012529689.html?mod=mostpop Opinion article in the ''Wall Street Journal'' written by Frank]<br />
*[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-667877812822137165&hl=en VIDEO: Thomas Frank, Aug. 14, 2008, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule], presentation at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, from recent book tour.<br />
*[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2009/dec/11/whats-matter-kansas-thomas-franks-best-selling-nov/ 2009 Thomas Frank interview] with Jon Niccum<br />
*[http://forum-network.org/lecture/pity-the-billionaire-thomas-frank VIDEO: Thomas Frank discusses ''Pity the Billionaire'']{{Dead link|date=May 2017}} on January 5, 2012, on WGBH's Forum Network.<br />
*[http://hnn.us/articles/pity-poor-billionaire-interview-thomas-frank Thomas Frank interview] on February 13, 2012, on the History News Network.<br />
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