Thomas Frank (journalist)

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Thomas Frank (2012)

Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965 in Kansas City , Missouri ) is an American political advisor, historian and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine and has written regular columns for the Wall Street Journal , Harpers Magazine, and The Guardian .

Frank analyzes and comments on trends in US elections, propaganda , advertising, pop culture, mainstream journalism, and the economy. His topics include the discourses and influences of cultural struggles in US politics and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States

Originally, Frank was a supporter of the Republican Party when he was a student . He is now a fierce critic of the Conservatives. He summarized the thesis of his book The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule as follows: "Bad governance is the natural consequence of being governed by those who believe that governments are something bad."

Life

Frank grew up in Mission Hills , Kansas . He graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School and graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1988 after leaving the University of Kansas in his freshman year . In 1990 Frank received a Master of Arts degree in history and in 1994 his PhD from the University of Chicago . He lives in Bethesda , Maryland with his wife and children .

Works (selection)

  • Thomas Frank: The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism . University of Chicago Press, 1997.
  • 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
  • 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 of America. Henry Holt and Co., 2004, ISBN 978-1-4299-0032-4
  • What's the Matter with America? The Resistible Rise of the American Right. 2006, ISBN 0-09-949293-8
  • The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Henry Holt and Co., 2008, ISBN 0-8050-7988-2
  • Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. 2011, ISBN 978-0-8050-9369-8
    • dt .: poor billionaires! The big bluff or how the American right is capitalizing on the crisis . Translated from the English by Thomas Wollermann, Druck-Reif collective. Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-88897-782-4
  • Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? 2016, ISBN 978-1-6277-9539-5
  • Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society. 2018, ISBN 978-1-2502-9366-4

Movies

  • The trap. Frank appears in the BBC documentary.
  • What's the Matter with Kansas? 2009 documentary inspired by Frank's book of the same name.
  • American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Thomas Frank
  2. ^ Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank website from pbs.org. Retrieved August 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Frank, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Thomas Carr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political advisor, historian, and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Missouri