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# Thomas Frank

(1965)   Historian

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Thomas Frank is a historian, best known for *The mocktail bar guide*.

## Quick Facts About Thomas Frank

Born March 21, 1965

Profession Historian

Notable works The mocktail bar guide

## About Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is an American political analyst, historian, and writer.

##  Quotes by Thomas Frank · Page 2

> [Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/presidential-legacies-are-valuable-things-too-valuable-to-be-left-up/)

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> [Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/promises-to-get-beyond-partisanship-are-the-most-perfunctory-sort-of/)

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> [Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/public-borrowing-is-costly-these-days-true-but-interest-rates-on/)

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> [What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/what-is-at-stake-in-the-debate-over-health-care-is-more-than-the-mere/)

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> [Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/massive-inequality-we-have-learned-isn-t-the-best-way-to-run-an/)

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> [Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/journalism-has-a-special-hallowed-place-for-stories-of-its/)

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> [“Saying, “I don’t feel like it,” does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to limit your choices going forward.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/saying-i-don-t-feel-like-it-does-absolutely-nothing-to-limit-your/)

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> [Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/conservatism-is-not-a-doctrine-of-contentment-not-a-doctrine-for-the/)

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> [Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/whereas-all-liberals-are-thought-to-erupt-self-righteously-whenever/)

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> [American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/american-conservatism-depends-on-its-continued-dominance-and-even-for/)

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> [Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/americans-have-known-about-mounting-inequality-and-king-sized-wall/)

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> [Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/selling-public-property-is-the-true-chicago-way-had-mr-obama-not-been/)

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> [In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/in-america-we-no-longer-have-an-institutionalized-organized-way-of/)

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> [What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/what-becomes-fascinating-is-the-way-the-culture-industry-doesn-t-deny/)

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> [A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/a-president-aiming-for-great-or-near-great-status-must-do-more-he/)

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> [Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/allowing-a-private-rather-than-a-public-entity-to-take-over-your-toll/)

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> [There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/there-are-few-things-in-politics-more-annoying-than-the-right-s-utter/)

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> [We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/we-have-become-a-society-that-can-t-self-correct-that-can-t-address/)

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> [It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/it-is-always-a-disappointment-to-turn-from-forthright-consideration/)

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> [“he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/he-saw-in-populism-the-first-glimmerings-of-some-of-the-great/)

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> [“In truth, however, nothing is inevitable and very little is new. And tech is no more the root of the problem than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/in-truth-however-nothing-is-inevitable-and-very-little-is-new-and/)

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> [I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/i-think-the-wikileaks-releases-furnish-us-with-an-opportunity-to/)

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> [“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/above-all-intellectual-anti-intellectualism-is-one-of-the-grand/)

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> [The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-great-goal-of-the-backlash-is-to-nurture-a-cultural-class-war-and/)

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> [We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/we-the-people-say-it-loud-and-clear-every-election-day-in-high-crime/)

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> [As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/as-you-may-recall-truman-was-extremely-unpopular-when-he-finally-left/)

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> [These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/these-days-of-course-the-focus-of-talk-about-popular-liberation/)

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> [The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-pursuit-of-the-vibrant-seems-to-be-the-universal-job-description/)

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> [“...the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/the-people-at-the-top-know-what-they-have-to-do-to-stay-there-and-in/)

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> [Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/privatizing-bits-of-the-prison-industry-was-a-step-in-the-right/)

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> [A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/a-lot-of-populists-after-populism-died-just-became-socialists-at-the/)

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> [As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/as-you-watch-the-world-crumble-try-taking-your-armageddon-with-this/)

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> [Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/our-current-way-of-regulating-the-financial-system-is-dysfunctional/)

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> [Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/concerns-about-the-size-and-role-of-government-are-what-seem-to-leave/)

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> [Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/mr-obama-still-has-time-to-reverse-course-a-great-deal-depends-on-it/)

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> [Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/corruption-is-uniquely-reprehensible-in-a-democracy-because-it/)

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> [We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/we-are-watching-industries-crumble-wall-street-firms-disappear/)

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> [Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/back-in-the-days-when-the-market-was-a-kind-of-secular-god-and-all/)

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> [Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/just-as-the-financial-crisis-has-created-toxic-assets-and-zombie/)

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> [Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-frank/financial-regulation-is-the-next-item-on-the-political-horizon-and-it/)

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