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The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Ruined Government, Enriched Themselves, and Beggared the Nation
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From the author of the landmark bestseller Whats the Matter with Kansas?, a jawdropping investigation of the decades of deliberateand lucrativeconservative misruleIn his previous book, Thomas Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us.Casting his eyes from the Bush administrations final months of plunder to the earliest days of the Republican revolution, Frank describes the rise of a ruling coalition dedicated to dismantling government. But rather than cutting down the big government they claim to hate, conservatives have simply sold it off, deregulating some industries, defunding others, but always turning public policy into a privatesector bidding war. Washington itself has been remade into a golden landscape of superwealthy suburbs and gleaming lobbyist headquartersthe wages of governmentbyentrepreneurship practiced so outrageously by figures such as Jack Abramoff.It is no coincidence, Frank argues, that the same politicians who guffaw at the idea of effective government have installed a regime in which incompetence is the rule. Nor will the country easily shake off the consequences of deliberate misgovernment through the usual election remedies. Obsessed with achieving a lasting victory, conservatives have taken pains to enshrine the free market as the permanent creed of state.Stamped with Thomas Franks audacity, analytic brilliance, and wit, The Wrecking Crew is his most revelatory work yetand his most important.
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