Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics

A nuanced portrait of the blue-collar, white supporters of Philadelphia’s police-commissioner-turned-mayor Frank Rizzo and the populist politics that emerged, reissued with a new preface that explores how the era connects to the rise of Donald Trump

The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of t...