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 important--and misunderstood--movement of our time.
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About author(s): 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 .
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.
Frank pummels the elites, revisits the movement\'s provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism.
The anti-populist vituperations by the Washington centrists of today are only the latest expression.
Frank also shows that elitist groups have reliably detested populism, lashing out at working-class concerns.
Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Party--the biggest mass movement in American history--fought 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.
The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; it is the story of American democracy itself, of its ever-widening promise of a decent life for all.
But this is a mistake.
Today "populism" is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists.
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.
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 important--and misunderstood--movement of our time
