In his 2004 New York Times bestseller What’s the Matter With Kansas?, Thomas Frank took a hard and compassionate look at why so many working Americans vote against their own economic and social interests. Now, with The Wrecking Crew, Frank checks the roots of the conservative revolution against modern conservatism-in-practice and concludes that instead of dismantling “big government,” conservatives are deregulating, defunding, and turning public policy into a blundering and corrupt private-sector bidding war.