Talk:Thomas Frank

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Contemporaries

What is with the "Contemporaries" section? It doesn't really add anything. CAVincent (talk) 01:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was tempted to delete it for being uncited and for being of doubtful veracity. Let's gie it a week or two to see if anyone want sto add a citation.--Hraefen ^Talk 17:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Over a month and no one spoke up for it, so I removed. CAVincent (talk) 00:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"economic liberalism"

I don't believe that the article text (or the wiki-link to "economic liberalism") accurately represents what was contained in the original, which I quote from here:

For the 2004 campaign, Kerry moved to the center, following the well-worn path of the corporate Democrats before him, downplaying any "liberal" economic positions that might cost him among the funders and affirming his support for the Iraq invasion even after the official justifications for that exercise had been utterly discredited. Kerry's pallid strategy offered little to motivate the party's traditional liberal and working-class base, but revulsion against Bush was assumed to be reason enough to get out and vote.

Because "liberal" has quotation marks around it, and by judging it by its context, I think it would be pretty safe to assume that Frank is not referring to neoliberalism or classical liberalism here, but instead, to modern liberalism. Shanoman (talk) 05:23, 29 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Section "Politics"

In general, this section seems to cover both his politics and his characteristics as a writer, which seem to be separable, though there probably isn't enough information about either to fill a section by itself.

The statement "He is unusual among writers on the American Left for his polemical style" seems incorrect -- there are plenty of writers on the American Left whose style is polemical. Perhaps the statement is about what his polemical style is, not that his style is polemical. But a good reference would clarify what is meant and might suggest a better phrasing. DWorley (talk) 19:10, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added block quote from Frank's WMWK?

I thought this would help to inform readers about the concept of Frank's "Backlash".

Is the reference cited properly? I used the short version; do I need to introduce a ref section? 36hourblock (talk) 17:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. 36hourblock (talk) 17:32, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What's the Matter With Kansas (borrowed from 1896)

William Allen White, the populist editor of the Emporia Gazette wrote a column by this exact name, decrying the 'know nothing' attitudes of the day--and the resultant loss of population and the apparent drain of intellectual capital from the state.

http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/whatsthematter.html

Frank, raised in Johnson County, the states most densely populated area, just adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas, appears to have used the same title for his book--with similar themes and updated information.

Please update: Thomas Frank is now with Salon

Please update: Thomas Frank is now with Salon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.45.19.181 (talk) 23:39, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 05:38, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not CNN reporter Thomas Frank

The person who resigned from CNN in June 2017 is a different Thomas Frank. Here is the profile of CNN Thomas Frank: https://web.archive.org/web/20170626164555/http://www.cnn.com/profiles/thomas-frank#about Etwiki998 (talk) 22:41, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Same person as T.A. Frank?

This says:

In Vanity Fair, T.A. Frank (who is not exactly the same person as Thomas Frank, author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?, but also not wholly dissimilar) writes: ....

They also look very similar. Is this a strong hint that they're the same person? -- Jack of Oz ^{[pleasantries]} 20:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]