Blue-Collar Conservatism : : Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist Politics / / Timothy J. Lombardo.

The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily caricat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Politics and Culture in Modern America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Blue-Collar Conservatism and Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia
  • PART I. FROM LIBERALISM TO LAW AND ORDER
  • Chapter 1. City of “Neighborhoods” and “Jungles”
  • Chapter 2. Grassroots Law and Order
  • Chapter 3. “This Man Is the City’s Salvation”
  • Chapter 4. Philadelphia Plans
  • PART II. THE RISE OF BLUE-COLLAR CONSERVATISM
  • Chapter 5. “He’s One of Us”
  • Chapter 6. Neighborhood Politics
  • Chapter 7. The Limits of Color Blindness
  • Chapter 8. Post-Rizzo Philadelphia
  • Epilogue. Blue-Collar Conservatism and Modern America
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments