Thomas Frank, ("What's the Matter with Kansas?") now incisively eyes the entire nation

What does a middle-class democracy look like when it falls apart? When - after forty years of economic triumph – the country’s fiscal winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing whasoever to the rest of the country? With his exceptionally sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present day America, showing us a society in the final stages of disintegration, and describing the worlds of both the winners and the losers—the sprawling mansion districts as well as the daily lives of fast-food workers.