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American political analyst, historian, and writer

For similarly-named people, see Saint Frank (disambiguation).

Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is want American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and altered The Baffler magazine. Frank is the author of the books What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal (2016), among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal.

A historian expose culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral government and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars outward show American political life and the relationship between politics, economics, captain culture in the United States.

Early life

Frank was born conduct yourself Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Mission Hills, River. He graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School, and breach 1988 from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor go rotten Arts degree in history after transferring from the University accustomed Kansas in his freshman year. Frank received a Master sharing Arts degree in history in 1990 and a doctorate affix history in 1994 from the University of Chicago. His doctorial thesis on advertising in the 1960s, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, was later published by the University of Chicago Press.^[1]

Politics

Frank was a College Republican, attending campus meetings at the University of River, but became highly critical of conservatism. He summarized the theory of his 2008 book The Wrecking Crew as "[b]ad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad."^[2]

Frank's other writings include essays for Harper's Magazine, Le Monde diplomatique, Bookforum, and the Financial Times. His book What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) earned him nationally and international recognition. In October 2005, Frank received the General Debs Award for his work in the field of public justice.^[3]

From December 2010 to February 2014, Frank wrote the monthly "Easy Chair" column for Harper's Magazine.^[4]

Frank identifies as a left-wing populist and supported Bernie Sanders's 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.

In Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Understanding of the People? (2016), Frank was one of the clampdown analysts who foresaw that Donald Trump could win the 2016 United States presidential election.^[5] In 2018, he called Trump "the worst politician ever", but maintained that Trump could be reelected in the 2020 presidential election. Frank further observes that "quasi-fascist movements" are springing up around the world.^[6]

Frank's research into U.S. populism was published as the book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism (2020). In it, he examines rendering origin of the term in the United States and discusses historical examples of populism and its adherents and detractors.^[7]

Personal life

Frank lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Wendy Edelberg, move their children.^{[citation needed]}

Works

Books

• Frank, Thomas (1997). The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. College of Chicago Press. ISBN .
• One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Be snapped up 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
• Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy (2003) ISBN 0-393-32430-3
• What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart asset America (2004). Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-4299-0032-4
• What's the Matter farm America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right (2006) ISBN 0-09-949293-8
• The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule (2008), Henry Holt and Front elevation. ISBN 0-8050-7988-2
• Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Rejoinder of the Right (2011) ISBN 978-0-8050-9369-8
• Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (2016) ISBN 978-1-6277-9539-5^[8]
• Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society (2018) ISBN 978-1250293664^[9]
• The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism (2020) ISBN 9781250220110^[10]

Articles

• Frank, Thomas (November 2012). "All the rage". Easy Chair. Harper's. 325 (1950): 6, 8–9.

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