| Contents |
Introduction : 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 (2000-2003) -- 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. |
