Author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? to speak in Des Moines January 18
Who: THOMAS FRANK, author of What's The Matter With Kansas? – How Conservatives Won the Heart of AmericaWhere: Drake University – Bulldog Theater, Des Moines
When: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 18
Free and Open to the Public
One
of “our most insightful social observers” (Los Angeles Times) cracks
the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a
marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary
Americans. Frank explains why the populist right eagerly embraces a values-based agenda and votes against their economic interests.
Co-sponsored
by Drake University’s Center for the Humanities, Women’s Studies
Program, and E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies.
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