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Marc Koralnik |
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THE PEOPLE, NO
A Brief History of Anti-Populism
From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most importantand misunderstoodmovement of our time.
Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in THE PEOPLE, NO Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today populism is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But this is a mistake.
Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Partythe biggest mass movement in American historyfought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformers' great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank reminds us how much we owe to the populist ethos. Frank pummels the elites, revisits the movement's provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism. THE PEOPLE, NO is a ringing affirmation of a movement that, Frank shows us, is not the problem of our times, but the solution for what ails us.
Thomas Frank is the author of Listen, Liberal, Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and writes regularly for The Guardian. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Partythe biggest mass movement in American historyfought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformers' great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank reminds us how much we owe to the populist ethos. Frank pummels the elites, revisits the movement's provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism. THE PEOPLE, NO is a ringing affirmation of a movement that, Frank shows us, is not the problem of our times, but the solution for what ails us.
Thomas Frank is the author of Listen, Liberal, Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, and What's the Matter with Kansas? A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper's, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler and writes regularly for The Guardian. He lives outside Washington, D.C.
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Published 2020-07-01 by Metropolitan |