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Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
Metropolitan Books
March 2016
On Sale: March 15, 2016
320 pages
ISBN: 1627795391
EAN: 9781627795395
Kindle: B012N992EK
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Non-Fiction Political
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With
Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal
politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats? It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only
Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if
only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the
country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern
Democratic Party. Drawing on years of research and
first-hand reporting, Frank points out that the Democrats
have done little to advance traditional liberal goals:
expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and
ensuring that workers get a fair deal. Indeed, they have
scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied
the White House for sixteen of the last twenty-four years,
and yet the decline of the middle class has only
accelerated. Wall Street gets its bailouts, wages keep
falling, and the free-trade deals keep coming. With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic,
Frank's Listen, Liberal lays bare the essence of the
Democratic Party's philosophy and how it has changed over
the years. A form of corporate and cultural elitism has
largely eclipsed the party's old working-class commitment,
he finds. For certain favored groups, this has meant
prosperity. But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way
ticket into the abyss of inequality. In this critical election year, Frank recalls the Democrats
to their historic goals-the only way to reverse the
ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America.
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