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Author:
Thomas Frank
Publisher:
Metropolitan Books
Date:
July 14, 2020
Political commentator Thomas Frank seeks to differentiate the term "populism" from Trumpian nationalism, and restore its meaning as a proponent of democratic values. Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Party fought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformersâ great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank reminds readers how much they owe to the populist ethos.
What The Reviewers Say
... brilliantly written, eye-opening.
In the most compelling passages of The People, No, Frank unearths the populists from the rubble piled atop them.
Anyone looking for a compact, highly readable history of the American political movement known as populism, and the determined efforts from both right and left to squelch it, will enjoy prominent progressive journalist Thomas Frank’s The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.
The book’s writing is clear, if sometimes heavy with sarcasm, and its author does what few writers today are capable of doing—he criticizes his own side. Mr. Frank is a firm believer in redistributionist economics and social liberalism, but he has written his book mainly to scold the American left.
