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How Conservatives Rule
Metropolitan Books
August 2008
On Sale: August 5, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0805079882
EAN: 9780805079883
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From the author of the landmark bestseller What’s the
Matter with Kansas?, a jaw-dropping investigation of the
decades of deliberate—and lucrative—conservative 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 headquarters—the 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 Frank’s audacity, analytic brilliance,
and wit, The Wrecking Crew is his most revelatory work yet—
and his most important.
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