Wrecking Crew How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation

Name: Wrecking Crew How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation
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ISBN: 9780805090901

ISBN-10: 0805090908

ISBN-13: 9780805090901

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Authors: Thomas Frank

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From the most astute political scoffer since H. L. Mencken, the definitive account of the conservative reign of misrule and corruptionHailed as a "hunk of dynamite" (Salon) and celebrated for its "satiric wit" (The New York Times Book Review) and "delighted outrage" (The New Republic),The Wrecking Crewsupplies the first andlacking future fact-finding commissionsprobably the only full reckoning of what conservatism has wrought.Casting his eyes from the Bush administration's final months of plunder to the earliest days of the Republican revolution, Thomas Frank uncovers the deep logic behind the graft and incompetence of conservatives in power. He shows how leaders dedicated to a doctrine of…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 8/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Thomas Frank is an editor of The Baffler.



Introduction: Follow This Dime



Insurgents



Golconda on the Potomac



Their Enemy, the State



The World as War and Conspiracy



Marketers of Discontent



From Paranoia to Privatopia, by Way of Pretoria



Saboteurs



"The Best Public Servant Is the Worst One"



Putting the Train in Reverse



City of Bought Men



The Bantustan That Roared



Win-Win Corruption


Conclusion: Reaching for the Pillars


Afterword: Gï¿½tterdï¿½mmerung


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index