Taking back America
Anatol Lieven: The right-wing backlash, 2 December 2004
What’s the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right
by Thomas Frank.
Secker, 306 pp., £12, September 2004,0 436 20539 4 Show More
by Thomas Frank.
Secker, 306 pp., £12, September 2004,
“... just loathe each other culturally: they also have radically clashing economic interests. Thomas Frank’s important and fascinating book on the Republican base in the Midwestern heartland anticipates and tries to answer the riddle posed by the election: why did so many poor white Americans vote for a Republican Party which has become more and more blatantly ... ”