Book : The Hardhat Riot Nixon, New York City, And The Dawn..

-Titulo Original : The Hardhat Riot Nixon, New York City, And The Dawn Of The White Working-class Revolution

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Oxford University Press

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One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020.Perhaps the best book ever on how Democrats lost the white working class. --James CarvilleIn May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown Manhattan, beating scores of protesters bloody. As hardhats clashed with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was underway--Democrats were at war with themselves. In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story of when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed. It was unthinkable one generation before: FDRs forgotten man siding with the party of Big Business and, ultimately, paving the way for presidencies from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. This is the story of the schism that tore liberalism apart. In the shadow of the half-built Twin Towers, on the same day the Knicks rallied against the odds and won their first championship, we experience the tumult of Nixons America and John Lindsays New York City, as festering division explodes into violence and Nixons advisors realize that the Democratic coalition has collapsed, that this is their chance, because these, quite candidly, are our people now. In this riveting story--rooted in meticulous research, including thousands of pages of never-before-seen records--we go back to a harrowing day that explains the politics of today. We experience an emerging class conflict between two newly polarized Americas, and how it all boiled over on one brutal day, when the Democratic Partys future was bludgeoned by its past. Review Riveting. --Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Engrossing, well-crafted, The Hardhat Riot ... argues persuasively that the riot sparked a vast national political shift driven by a widening divide between the working class and the educated elite that has led to the era of the Trump presidency. ... Kuhn writes with empathy for both sides. ... Kuhns accounts of the violence are vivid and raw. ... The author concludes with a sharp analysis of how the revolt of the White working class almost immediately reshaped American politics, beginning with Nixons opportunistic claim of blue-collar Whites as Silent Majority supporters of his law-and-order presidency. Kuhn shows the reverberations over the decades, right up to the making of Donald Trumps political base. ... Kuhn argues that class divisions have driven people so far apart that its as if Americans now live in entirely different places, even if they are still called by one name--America.--The Washington Post book review Perhaps the best book ever on how Democrats lost the white working class. The Hardhat Riot is a great read, but also a must-read to understand the voters that Democrats neglected at their own peril.--James Carville, former Chief Strategist for President Bill Clinton Over the past 15 years few writers have covered this realignment with the consistency of David Paul Kuhn, whose warnings about the reasons white working people were moving away from the Democrats were largely dismissed by the news media and party elites ... Mr. Kuhn remained an unacknowledged prophet. ... Now he has synthesized his message with a lesson from history: The Hardhat Riot, a riveting account of ... [a] clash on the streets of New York [that] came to symbolize the irreconcilable division taking shape in the rest of the country. ... Mr. Kuhn avoids polemics and judgment, yet leads the reader to understand the deeper questions implicit in so many of todays political debates. ... The Hardhat Riot insightfully explains why and how this happened. Perhaps the Democratic Partys leaders will finally understand what David Paul Kuhn has been trying to tell them.--Jim Webb, The Wall Street Journal book review The Hardhat Riot, by David Paul Kuhn, vividly evokes . . . a blue-collar rampage whose effects still ripple, not the least of them be