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Thomas Frank might be best known as the author of\\xa0What\'s the Matter with Kansas?, a 2004 book that sought to explain why so many Americans in "flyover country" vote for the Republican Party. But his analysis goes much deeper than just Kansas. In this conversation, he discusses his development as a political analyst and historian, and offers his perspective on what\'s happened to the left and right in recent decades. His latest book,\\xa0Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?\\xa0traces how\\xa0Democrats became the party of Wall Street, and Republicans hone their image as the party of "ordinary working people."\\xa0