Thomas Frank Brings "The Wrecking Crew" To D.C.

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The Wrecking Crew

Book event and signing with author Thomas Frank, featuring special guest David Donnelly from Public Campaign Action Fund.

Eight years of calamitous conservative government has come and gone. Or has it? The damage left by right-wing hacks at the highest levels of our government going back decades still hobbles us today. And the network of special interest lobbyists embedded in the Washington establishment continues to thwart public demands for real change.

How we understand what we are up against? Thomas Frank's latest book, "The Wrecking Crew," is now updated and out in paperback. To celebrate, on Thursday, October 1, Frank came to the scene of the crime—Washington —to detail how conservatives deliberately destroyed the underpinning of effective government, and how their efforts are stifling us today. Click here to watch a video report of the event.

Rick Perlstein in 2008 blogged about "The Wrecking Crew." Here's what he wrote:


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Video Killed the Literary Star

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)

"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

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 »