The Neglected Voter
White Men and the Democratic Dilemma
Kuhn, David Paul
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BOOK SUMMARY
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 t
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A brilliantly insightful analysis of American politics at the national level. Every Democrat should read this book." --General Wesley K. Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander for NATO, Europe, and author of A Time To Lead"America's single most important voting bloc may also be its least understood. David Kuhn rectifies that. The Neglected Voter tells you everything you always wanted to know about white men but were afraid to ask. This is a very smart book."--Tucker Carlson, MSNBC Anchor"If you follow politics, you already think you understand the 'gender gap'--but you're wrong. You won't really comprehend its massive implications until you read this book. Using a masterful combination of first-person interviews, polling data, and personal insight, Kuhn shows why millions of white men in America broke their ties to the Democratic Party and made Republicans the majority party for two generations. But Democrats needn't despair, because Kuhn also shows them how they can win white men back." --Larry J. Sabato, author of A More Perfect Constitution and Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics"The premise that the Democratic Party's failure to address the interests, convictions and concerns of white male voters has been the root cause of its decline since FDR days is persuasively presented in this provocative wake-up call to American liberalism."--Jules Witcover, author of Very Strange Bedfellows and The Year the Dream Died"The Neglected Voter is an original and insightful analysis of a great topic: the Democratic party's White Male Gap in presidential elections. David Paul Kuhn explains the repeated failures of Democratic presidential candidates to appeal to white men and suggests how the party's nominees might be able to win these voters in the future."--Merle Black, co-author of Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403982740
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403982742
Dewey Decimal: 324.973/092
Library of Congress: 2007010326
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 278
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