The Wrecking Crew


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Video Killed the Literary Star

By Rick Perlstein
August 22, 2008

The part of Tom Frank's argument in The Wrecking Crew that really sticks to the ribs is geographical: how the wrecking of good government is written on the very face of the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. more »

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Tom Frank Quote of the Day (morning)

By Rick Perlstein
July 28, 2008

"To try to understand conservatism without taking into account its grounding in business though—to depict it as, say, the political style of an unusually pious nation or an extreme dedication to the principle of freedom—is like setting off to war with maps of the wrong country." more »

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Tom Frank Quote of the Day: Brownie's Law

By Rick Perlstein
July 27, 2008

All this week I'll be featuring Tom Frank's new book The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, which comes out next week and I've had the privilege to read. more »

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