Thomas Frank
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Thomas Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American author, journalist and columnist for Harper's Magazine. He is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal, authoring "The Tilting Yard" from 2008 to 2010.
Frank is a historian of culture and ideas and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism and economics. With his writing, he explores the rhetoric and impact of the 'Culture Wars' in American political life, and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.
Personal life
Frank was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1965. He grew up in a local suburb, Mission Hills, Kansas. Frank graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School. He later attended the University of Kansas. He also attended the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in history in 1994. He currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Wendy, and their children.
Books
- The Conquest of Cool (1997) ISBN 0-226-26012-7
- One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (2000) ISBN 0-385-49503-X
- New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Right (2002) ISBN 0-9717575-4-2
- What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) ISBN 0-8050-7339-6
- What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right (2006) ISBN 0-0994-9293-8
- The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (2008) 384pp, ISBN 0805079882, Publisher: Henry Holt and Co., Pub. Date: 2008-09-05.
- Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (2003) ISBN 0-393-32430-3
- Pity the Billionaire (2011)
See also
- The Trap (TV Documentary Series) Thomas Frank features in The Trap, a BBC documentary.
- What's the Matter with Kansas? (film) 2009 documentary movie based on Thomas Frank's best-selling book of the same name.
- "American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals" Includes interviews with Thomas Frank speaking about the division between "red states" and "blue states" and other aspects of American politics