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Don´t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Lily Geismer
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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
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691157238
SKU
V9780691157238
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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 a middle-class white suburbia ... 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 a middle-class white suburbia ... Read more