TALK: Class War and Culture War in 21st Century America
Thomas Frank
Thursday, October 7 / 4:00 PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, HSSB, 6th Floor
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Tom Frank is one of America's most acute and lively public intellectuals. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. The Boston Globe calls this book "The must-read of this election season." Conservative columnist George Will describes Frank as "A formidable controversialist - imagine Michael Moore with a trained brain and an intellectual conscience."

As a first year graduate student at the University of Chicago, Frank founded The Baffler, a polemically sharp and engagingly witty journal of both cultural criticism and political economy. He edits it still. He is the author of The Conquest of Cool (1997), One Market Under God (2000) and two Baffler anthologies. A contributor to The Nation, In These Times, and the OP-Ed pages of The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, Frank
currently writes for Harpers Magazine

ADDITIONAL EVENT: Tom Frank will lead a workshop on writing for the
mainstream press, Friday, October 8, 10 a.m., in Room 4041, Humanities and
Social Science Building. All are welcome.

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