What’s the matter with Kansas?: Thomas Frank’s best-selling book is transformed into an acclaimed do

Lawrence Journal World ^ | Dec 11, 2009 | Jon Niccum

[rwfromkansas]

I have grown to love Texas since moving here in August 2008, but man, I miss Kansas.

Nothing wrong with it at all except for electing Dems to governor because of Republican infighting occassionally.

The film actually sounds interesting and very opposite of the book since Frank didn’t have anything to do with it. It actually sounds complimentary.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks justiceseeker93.

[Dumb_Ox]

Perhaps I'm naive, but this closing comment from Frank gives me hope he's grown:

“At the New York screening, somebody got up from the crowd and asked the ‘luminaries’ who were onstage with us, ‘How do we teach these people from Kansas?’ I’m thinking, ‘It’s not the people from Kansas who need to learn, it’s you.’”

I enjoyed Frank's The Conquest of Cool, but Caleb Stegall is a better Kansas populist than Frank.