- 292 pages
- English
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About this book
In the 1960s, the Republican Party began to win over a crucial demographic: white male voters. Presidential politics was transformed for a generation.
David Paul Kuhn explains this fundamental fact behind the rise of the Republicans and the decline of the Democrats, and reminds the political left that midterm victories (1986, 2006) do not always equal sustainable success. In revealing, lucid prose, Kuhn explains how America's conservative party came to win a majority of workingmen and the White House. Grounded in practical politics,
The Neglected Voter presciently reconfigures the American political landscape. Equipped with unprecedented research data, reporting, and exclusive interviews with such figures as Jimmy Carter, Norman Mailer, Mark Warner, and Pat Robertson, Kuhn examines the role of gender and racial identity in presidential politics through the social changes that have defined the last half century.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Up from the Ashes: The New Conservatism and the White Everyman
- II From the Apex of Liberalism to the Decline of Democrats (1962–1968)
- III Southern Man
- IV Blue-Collar Backlash: Nixon and the Men He Understood (1969–1972)
- V The Breakup of the FDR Coalition and the False Dawn of Carter (1972–1979)
- VI The Measure of the Man: The Politics of Personal Manhood
- VII God, Manhood, and Moral Values
- VIII The Strategic Rise of Reagan and the White Male Gap (1980)
- IX Millett Versus Mailer: Vietnam, Feminism, and White Manhood as Vice
- X The Peculiar American Conservatism, Patriotism, and the Classic Male (1981–1984)
- XI Echo-Chamber Journalism and Living with the Like-Minded
- XII The Value of Grit
- XIII Against God and Country: The Perception of the Effete Liberal Elitist (1988)
- XVI Those Who Work Hard and Play by the Rules (1992)
- XV The Angry White Male: Kicked Out and Charged with Abandonment
- XVI The Hard Way, and Soccer Moms
- XVII Politics of the Common Man and Gun Culture (2000–2003)
- XVIII The "Feminine Party" in Wartime: Bush, Kerry, and Bravado (2004–2007)
- XIX The Political Culture of White Manhood: Taxed, Downsized, Emasculated, Dreaming, Believing, and Antagonized
- XX Reconciliation: White Men and Democrats, Toward 2008 and 2012
- Appendix of Studies
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright page