The hardhat riot: nixon, new york city, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution - David Paul Kuhn

• 2 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi

• 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.