Author of What’s the Matter with Kansas? to speak in Des Moines January 18
Who: THOMAS FRANK, author of What's The Matter With Kansas? - How Conservatives Won the Heart of AmericaWhere: Drake University - Bulldog Theater, Des Moines
When: 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 18
Free and Open to the Public
One of "our most insightful social observers" (Los Angeles Times) cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans. Frank explains why the populist right eagerly embraces a values-based agenda and votes against their economic interests.
Co-sponsored by Drake University’s Center for the Humanities, Women’s Studies Program, and E.T. Meredith Center for Magazine Studies.
