What's The Matter With Kansas Author:Thmoas Frank How Conservatives won the heart of America. — "This is the true story of how conservatives punk'd a nation. Tom Frank has stripped the right-wing hustle to its core: It is bread and circuses-only without the bread. Written like a poem, every line in its perfect place, What's the Matter With Kansas? is the best new book I've read in years, on any ... more »subject." Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Census.« less