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Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250020352
A look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism.
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Picador
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429900326
One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1250293669
Tack and Richardson show you how to start with a batch of plain cupcakes, and turn them into fun creations such as robots, farm- or zoo-animals, and even a cookie village! --Adapted from back cover.
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1627795405
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.
Author : Thomas Frank
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0805090908
From the bestselling author of What's The Matter With Kansas?, an exposé of the Washington conservatism has built: how it works, how it doesn't, and why it's here to stay
Author : Jerry Oppenheimer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312662114
From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson & Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, all is revealed in this unauthorized biography. Often compared to the Kennedy clan because of the tragedies and scandals that had befallen both wealthy and powerful families, This book, based on scores of exclusive, candid, on-the-record interviews, reveals how the dynasty's vast fortune was both intoxicating and toxic through the generations of a family that gave the world Band-Aids and Baby Oil. At the same time, they have been termed perhaps the most dysfunctional family in the Fortune 500.
Author : Tom Frank
Publisher : Random House
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 140901794X
At no other moment in history have the values of business and the corporation been more nakedly and arrogantly in the ascendant. Combining popular intellectual history with a survey of recent business culture, Thomas Frank traces an idea he calls 'market populism' - the notion that markets are, in some transcendent way, identifiable with democracy and the will of the people. The idea that any criticism of things as they are is -litist can be seen in management literature, where downsizing and ceaseless, chaotic change are celebrated as victories for democracy; in advertising, where an endless array of brands seek to position themselves as symbols of authenticity and rebellion; on Wall street, where the stock market is identified as the domain of the small investor and common man; and in the right-wing politics of the 1990s and the popular theories of Tom Peters, Charles Handy and Thomas Friedman. One Market Under God is Frank's counterattack against the onslaught of market propaganda. Mounted with the weapons of common sense it is lucid and tinged with anger, betrayal and a certain hope for the future.
Author : Jessica Clare
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 069818694X
The New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire and the Virgin returns with a tale of Shakespearean-style seduction... Edie's an overbearing cat behaviorist who's not big on people. Magnus is a newly-rich game developer who likes to be in control. When the two of them meet at Gretchen and Hunter's masquerade engagement party, the loathing is mutual. Unfortunately for them—and everyone else—they're in the wedding party together and must deal with each other for the next few months. But when Magnus's younger brother falls for Edie's sister, he begs for his brother's help in concocting a plan to win her over. If Magnus can keep the prickly Edie occupied, his brother will have time to woo Edie’s sister. Of course, Magnus isn't interested in the slightest, but Edie is...intriguing. And stubborn. And smart. And sexy. And they might have more in common than they thought. Before long, it becomes a challenge between the two of them to see who will be tamed first. But how’s Edie going to react when she finds out that Magnus is using her? And how’s Magnus going to handle the fact that he’s fallen for a cat lady? Praise for the Billionaire Boys Club novels “Blazing hot.”—USA Today “A fast, sexy read.”—Fiction Vixen “Great storytelling…delightful reading…It’s fun and oh so hot.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Posey Parks
Publisher : Posey Parks Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. The smoking hot dancer is on my radar. Every night I’ll frequent the popular gentlemen's club until she’s mine. She works full time not to pay for her college classes but to pay her father’s medical bills. I offer to assist financially and she shoots me down. Not only is she beautiful but stubborn as all hell. Lydia has a few dangerous stalkers she’s not aware exist. I’d happily end them. No one messes with what’s mine. Lydia is holding true to remaining a virgin until she is married. I have no problem waiting until she is my wife. Then I’ll tame those scrumptious curves bringing the beautiful Lydia to her knees.
Author : Road of Flowers
Publisher : Cloudary Holdings Limited (Webnovel)
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
[Webnovel provides the latest update of Ma'am You Have Been Uncovered novels] [Two-faced Languid Rich Male Lead vs. Deeply Hidden Beautiful Female Lead] Qin Ran had grown up in the countryside. She disappears in the third year of high school and ends up suspended for a year. One year later, she is brought to Yun Cheng by her mother to attend First Middle School. Her mother tells her: "Your stepfather is from a prestigious family, your brother is a genius, and your younger sister is a top student. Don't be an embarrassment to them." Anybody who is anybody in Beijing all receives a warning from Master Juan of the Cheng family: Master Juan's wife is from the countryside and doesn't know how to socialize nor make connections... her temper is also really bad, so please be tolerant of her. One day, when Master Juan is investigating a certain big shot, his subordinate stares at the sockpuppet—an online identity used for purposes of deception—he had accidentally revealed. It's from the wife that supposedly doesn't know anything... He falls into silence. The two bigshots has probably been hiding their sockpuppets from each other in order not to make the other party feel inferior.