On Feb 21, 2009, at 8:18 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
after a month or two of intermittent reading, I just finished Thomas
Frank's book on Kansas. Can someone direct me to a leftist critique of
it?
Don't know of a leftist critique, but one of the standard ones is
Bartels:
http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf
I don't find his critique convincing (not for reasons of data or even
most of the analysis -- he offers pretty good background data from
which he attempts to derive his critique, but I think his entire
argument depends on, wrongly IMHO, a poor understanding of what is
meant by "working class" in the question "why does the working class
vote against its own interests?"). I have been hoping, for a while, to
post my thoughts/criticism of Bartels... but haven't had the time.
--ravi
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