ABSTRACT
Thomas Frank’s 2004 book, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, was an important political touchstone for many progressives and some liberals in the aftermath of the 2004 elections. Frank provided a way to think about the changes in the political landscape that accompanied what seemed to many a rightward shift in American politics. 1 His book is a gripping account of how neoliberals were able to use a neoconservative politics of values to engineer a right-wing takeover of a state that had once been a center of progressive politics.
