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The Hardhat Riot - Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution (Paperback)
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The Hardhat Riot - Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution (Paperback)
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The nail-biting story of when the hardhats of downtown Manhattan
beat scores of hippies bloody in May 1970, four days after Kent
State, and how the nation reacted. In May 1970, four days after
Kent State, construction workers chased students through downtown
Manhattan, beating scores of protestors bloody. As hardhats clashed
with hippies, it soon became clear that something larger was
happening; Democrats were at war with themselves. In The Hardhat
Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story-how chaotic it was,
when it began, 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: FDR's
"forgotten man" siding with the party of Big Business and,
ultimately, paving the way for presidencies from Ronald Reagan to
Donald Trump. 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 relive the schism that tore liberalism apart. We
experience the tumult of Nixon's America and John Lindsay's New
York City, as festering division explodes into violence. Nixon's
advisors realize that this tragic turn is their chance, that the
Democratic coalition has collapsed and that "these, quite candidly,
are our people now." In this nail-biting story, Kuhn delivers on
meticulous research and reporting, drawing from thousands of pages
of never-before-seen records. We go back to a harrowing day that
explains the politics of today. We experience the battle between
two tribes fighting different wars, soon to become different
Americas, ultimately reliving a liberal war that maimed both sides.
We come to see how it all was laid bare one brutal day, when the
Democratic Party's future was bludgeoned by its past, as if it was
a last gasp to say that we once mattered too.
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