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The Hardhat Riot - Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Hardhat Riot - Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution (Hardcover)
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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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