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The hardhat riot : Nixon, New York City, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution

The hardhat riot : Nixon, New York City, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution

Book 2020

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 Nixo...