"Brilliantly written, eye-opening . . . Frank is the ideal public intellectual to grapple with the duality of populism. . . . Readers come away knowing that at its heart, populism means just one thing: This land was made for you and me." --The Washington Post
"Frank describes an indigenous radical tradition that descends from Jefferson and Paine and stretches forward to Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. . . . Compelling." --The New York Times Book Review
"Rousing . . . central to the challenge of our times . . . A call to arms against the plutocratic elites of both America's main parties . . . Frank's real strength lies in his energetic optimism." --Financial Times
"Tom Frank does what few writers today are capable of doing--he criticizes his own side." --Wall Street Journal
"Deserves your attention . . . The People, No describes meticulously how over the last 120 years, reigning elites--whether conservative, liberal, or progressive--have regularly attacked populists with the same falsehoods . . . Welcome." --Forbes
"A terrific book . . . damning . . . eloquently-argued . . . The People, No documents the furious elite propaganda response to bottom-up political movements that has recurred in uncannily similar fashion at key moments across nearly a century and a half of American history, and is firing with particular venom today." --Matt Taibbi
"Brilliant . . . grand . . . an urgent plea to liberals and radicals alike to embrace a left populism and universalism--or keep on losing." --Jacobin
"An illuminating book, the best one I've read about the sound and fury of America's 2020 Election campaign." --Lewis H. Lapham
"A real contribution . . . Frank looks forward to the day when the 'liberal' elite and right-leaning populists exhaust themselves--and the Democratic Party reclaims its identity as the voice of workers." --City Journal
"Smart . . . Thomas Frank is one of the few great American political writers, and his new book The People, No is one of his best, if not his most urgent and pressing. . . . We need more Thomas Franks." --Splice Today
"Provocative . . . powerful . . . Frank has delivered a defiant challenge to the antipopulist liberals more infatuated with the advice of experts and their own moral virtues than mobilizing ordinary Americans on the basis of progressive values."
--The Progressive
"Populism is not just an old American way of doing politics, the author argues, but fundamentally a progressive one as well. . . convincing . . . an eminently readable contribution to political discourse." --Kirkus Reviews
"Frank blends diligent research with well-placed snark to keep readers turning the pages. Liberals will be outraged, enlightened, and entertained." --Publishers Weekly
"Frank brilliantly places populism in the context of seminal historic events. . . . His provocative conclusions, about elites and the people, turn common assumptions upside down--all the better for making readers think." --Booklist (starred review)
"With his usual verve, Frank skewers the elite voices of condescension that vilify the egalitarian and democratic strivings of working people. In so doing, he offers a passionate defense of populism, which he reveals as a deep and wide political tradition that remains as essential as ever for the hopes of a more just and equitable society." --Charles Postel, author of Equality: An American Dilemma, 1866-1896
