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How Conservatives Rule
Metropolitan Books
August 2008
On Sale: August 5, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0805079882
EAN: 9780805079883
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From the author of the landmark bestseller Whatβs the Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberateβand lucrativeβconservative misrule In his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us. Casting back to the early days of the conservative revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a private-sector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of super-wealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquartersβthe wages of government-by-entrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff. It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state. Stamped with Thomas Frankβs audacity, analytic brilliance, and wit, The Wrecking Crew is his most revelatory work yetβ and his most important.
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