Best-Selling Author Thomas Frank Reads From His New Book, "Pity the Billionaire"

Monday 23 January 2011

by: Thomas Frank, Truthout | Audio Book Excerpt 

 

Thomas Frank, formerly an opinion writer for The Washington Post as well as a current monthly columnist for Harper's, is the founder of the journal The Baffler and the author of a new book, "Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right."

Frank says in an interview that his book is about the social construction of reality, writing that the right's political revival is due to their offering of "an idealism so powerful that it clouds its partisan's perceptions of reality."