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Don´t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Lily Geismer
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Description for Don´t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Paperback. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPF; JPHV; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 28. Weight in Grams: 620.
Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of ... Read more
Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Politics and Society in Modern America
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691176239
SKU
V9780691176239
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About Lily Geismer
Lily Geismer is assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College.
Reviews for Don´t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Don't Blame Us is a very readable and informative book.
Choice This brilliantly argued and beautifully written book was ... eye-opening for me both as a scholar and a product of the world Geismer reveals in all of its complexity.
Elise Lemire, New England Quarterly [An] exhaustively researched, compelling book... Geismer presents a fresh and much-needed portrait of ... Read more
Choice This brilliantly argued and beautifully written book was ... eye-opening for me both as a scholar and a product of the world Geismer reveals in all of its complexity.
Elise Lemire, New England Quarterly [An] exhaustively researched, compelling book... Geismer presents a fresh and much-needed portrait of ... Read more