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

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. 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.



This is the story of the schism that tore liberalism apart. In the shadow of the half-built Twin Towers, on the...