... 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.

... a sprightly crafted survey of populist philosophy over the past century as it contends with more established political forces that have considered its ideas to be backwards and undemocratic.

There’s no doubting Frank’s research.

The author lays on the indignation a little too thick at times, but it’s a convincing case all the same. A sometimes-overheated but eminently readable contribution to political discourse..

... [a] fervent and acerbically witty call to action.