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The Working Class Republican

The Working Class Republican Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism

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Publisher's Synopsis

"In this sure to be controversial book in the vein of The Forgotten Man, a political analyst argues that conservative icon Ronald Reagan was not an enemy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, but his true heir and the popular program's ultimate savior. Conventional political wisdom views the two most consequential presidents of the twentieth-century--FDR and Ronald Reagan--as ideological opposites. FDR is hailed as the champion of big-government progressivism manifested in the New Deal. Reagan is seen as the crusader for conservatism dedicated to small government and free markets. But Henry Olsen argues that this assumption is wrong. In The Working Class Republican, Olsen contends that the historical record clearly shows that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal itself were more conservative than either Democrats or Republicans believe, and that Ronald Reagan was more progressive than most contemporary Republicans understand. Ol

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Book information

ISBN: 9780062475268
Publisher: Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 973.927092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 584g
Height: 238mm
Width: 164mm
Spine width: 34mm