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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54666.What_s_the_Matter_with_Kansas_How_Conservatives_Won_the_Heart_of_America?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170441671m/54666.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54666.What_s_the_Matter_with_Kansas_How_Conservatives_Won_the_Heart_of_America?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/30845.Thomas_Frank">Thomas Frank</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25342199?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>This book makes a lot of the nonsense coming from the right wing clear, if that's a good word to describe nonsense. The use of ignorant, working class people to advance the agendas of wealthy elites is remarkably cynical in it's details. The Christianists who use Christ to advance social darwinism and the tax breaks the wealthy feel they deserve are helping ruin education and programs that could help them become upwardly mobile. Words are more powerful than deeds, it appears. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/803282?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>