The Hardhat Riot : Nixon, New York City, and the dawn of the white working-class revolution /
Kuhn, David Paul,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Backdrop. "Out for blood" -- The revolutionaries of Grand Central and Columbia -- Chicago '68 -- Two moratorium days -- "Law and order" and the decline of cities -- The political fallout of "law and order" -- Blue-collar whites are "rediscovered" (in middle American Gotham) -- Those who did the fighting and dying -- The new Left and the "great test for Liberals" -- Building the Twin Towers, ethnic New York, and race -- Cambodia and Kent State -- Kent State shakes New York -- "Bloody Friday." "U-S-A. all the way!" -- Melee -- "About time the silent majority made some noise" -- Violence becomes "contagious" -- "We've lost control!" -- The riot spreads -- "I'm not having City Hall taken over on my watch" -- Full circle to Federal Hall -- Afterward and Aftermath. The days after: Knicks Utopia, a fraught city, and Nixon at the brink -- The riot reverberates -- "Workers' Woodstock" -- "Our people now": Nixon sees a future in an un-silent majority -- Honor America Day -- "Born with a potmetal spoon": Nixon launches the GOP's blue-collar strategy -- How America(s) saw it -- The end of the beginning.
Riots
Anti-war demonstrations
Student protesters
Construction workers
Social conflict
Anti-war demonstrations.
Construction workers.
Riots.
Social conditions.
Social conflict.
Hardhat riot