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The neglected voter : white men and the Democratic dilemma / David Paul Kuhn.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kuhn, David Paul.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Elections--United States.
Elections.
Sex role--Political aspects.
Men, White.
United States.
Voting--United States.
Voting.
Political participation--United States.
Political participation.
Men, White--United States--Attitudes.
Sex role--Political aspects--United States.
Sex role.
Physical Description:
278 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Summary:
Forget Soccer Moms and the key demographic du jour.& Winning elections means going back to basics
Contents:
The white male gap
Up from the ashes, the new conservatism, and the white everyman
From the apex of liberalism to the decline of Democrats (1962-1968)
Southern man
Blue-collar backlash: Nixon and the men he understood (1969-1972)
The breakup of the FDR coalition and the false dawn of Carter (1972-1979)
The measure of the man: the politics of personal manhood
God, manhood, and moral values
The strategic rise of Reagan and the white male gap (1980)
Millett versus Mailer: Vietnam, feminism, and white manhood as vice
The peculiar American conservatism, patriotism, and the classic male (1981-1984)
Echo-chamber journalism and living with the like-minded
The value of grit
Against God and country: the perception of the effete liberal elitist (1988)
Those who work hard and play by the rules (1992)
The angry white male: kicked out and charged with abandonment
The hard way, and soccer moms
Politics of the common man and gun culture
The "feminine party" in wartime: Bush, Kerry, and bravado (2004-2007)
The political culture of white manhood: taxed, downsized, emasculated, dreaming, believing, and antagonized
Reconciliation: white men and Democrats, toward 2008 and 2012.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [250]-271) and index.
ISBN:
1403982740
9781403982742
OCLC:
85892404

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