David Paul Kuhn

The Hardhat Riot (eBook, PDF)

Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190064723
• Artikelnr.: 59565028

Autorenporträt

David Paul Kuhn is an author, reporter, and political analyst. He has served as a senior and chief political writer across the political-media landscape, from Politico to RealClearPolitics to CBS News, as well as written for the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, National Review, New Republic, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications, and regularly appears on networks ranging from BBC to Fox News. He is the author of the political novel What Makes It Worthy.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE
ROOTS AND REASONS
Chapter One: Out for Blood'
Chapter Two: Chicago--Pigs Against Peaceniks
Chapter Three: The Other Side of Moratorium Day
Chapter Four: Blue-Collar Whites are Rediscovered'
Chapter Five: Those Who Did the Fighting and Dying
Chapter Six: Lindsay, the 'Great Test for Liberals'
Chapter Seven: Looking Out for Your Own: Labor Clans and Race
Chapter Eight: Tumult--Cambodia and Kent State
Chapter Nine: The Hardhats Outlook
Chapter Ten: Tremors Before the Quake
Chapter Eleven: On Top of the World, Building the Twin Towers
PART TWO
RIOT
Chapter Twelve: 'U.S.A. All the way!'
Chapter Thirteen: Violence Becomes 'Contagious'
Chapter Fourteen: 'Mass Confusion'
Chapter Fifteen: 'Get Lindsay!'
Chapter Sixteen: 'We've lost control!'
Chapter Seventeen: 'I'm not having City Hall taken over on my watch'
Chapter Eighteen: Full Circle to Federal Hall
Chapter Nineteen: 'I saw these kids spit on the flag. What could I do?'
PART THREE
AFTERWARD AND AFTERMATH
Chapter Twenty: The Utopian Team in Fractured Times
Chapter Twenty-One: Nixon at the Brink, and New Allies
Chapter Twenty-Two: After the Riot
Chapter Twenty-Three: 'Workers' Woodstock'
Chapter Twenty-Four: 'Our People Now'
Chapter Twenty-Five: 'What Americans Saw in the Turmoil'
Chapter Twenty-Six: How the New Left Responded
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The End of the Beginning