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The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
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Author:
David Paul Kuhn
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, USA
Date:
July 1, 2020
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, paving the way for presidencies from Ronald Reagan to Trump.
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Kuhn 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.
Just after the 2016 election, [Kuhn] wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined 'Sorry, Liberals. Bigotry Didn’t Elect Donald Trump.' Now he has synthesized his message with a lesson from history: The Hardhat Riot a riveting account of the May 1970 explosion of New York’s blue-collar workers who confronted an antiwar rally designed to shut down Wall Street after President Nixon sent American troops into Cambodia.
The Hardhat Riot...vividly evokes an especially ugly moment half a century ago, when the misbegotten Vietnam War and a malformed notion of patriotism combined volatilely.
Just after the 2016 election, [Kuhn] wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined 'Sorry, Liberals. Bigotry Didn’t Elect Donald Trump.' Now he has synthesized his message with a lesson from history: The Hardhat Riot a riveting account of the May 1970 explosion of New York’s blue-collar workers who confronted an antiwar rally designed to shut down Wall Street after President Nixon sent American troops into Cambodia.
