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- David Paul Kuhn is an American writer, and political analyst, whose most recent book, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, was recognized by The New York Times as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020."
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David Paul Kuhn is an American writer, and political analyst, whose most recent book, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, was recognized by The New York Times as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020."
David Kuhn has represented Amy Schumer’s #1 New York Times bestseller The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo and Liaquat Ahamed’s Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, as well as books by Pulitzer Prize winner and National Book Award nominee Louis Menand; scholar, television producer and presenter ...
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For this book, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, only about a third of the book told the story of the riot itself. The other two-thirds concerned the drama that made New York City a microcosm, in the late ’60s and early ’70s, of the class tension between blue-collar whites and the emerging u...
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The inaccuracy of the media’s contemporaneous reporting on the Hardhat Riot itself (though first drafts of history are exactly that, first drafts), but also how that skewed later writing, from magazines to journals. Equally, that some seminal history of the era had been exceedingly chronicled, but key events were overlooked or downplayed.
“On the eve of the [American] Revolution, the crown instructed its governors to veto all colonial efforts to liberalize the divorce laws.” (The indispensable The Radicalism of the American Revolutionby Gordon S. Wood, page 147.)
After much frustration using FOIA/FOIL with agencies from the NYPD to the FBI, I learned that most of the unread records I sought were stored outside the purview of the modern NYPD, due to litigation. It took time to gain access. But once I saw that first box and opened the first folder, I knew I had a book.
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Get started. And keep in mind: investigative research or reporting is like constantly hitting traffic jams and road closures. Seek new routes. But sometimes you also have to wait out the resistance. You need to embrace the slog and keep moving forward.
In The Hardhat Riot, David Paul Kuhn tells the fateful story of when the white working class first turned against liberalism, when Richard Nixon seized the breach, and America was forever changed.
Aug 2, 2020 · David Paul Kuhn is the author of The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. He is an author, reporter, and political analyst.
David Paul Kuhn’s “The Hardhat Riot” recounts a little-remembered event and traces its significance to the politics of the present day. By Clyde Haberman
