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The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma Paperback – September 16, 2008

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In the 1960s, the Republican party won over a crucial demographic: white male voters, and the game was changed for both parties. The Neglected Voter explains how Republicans came to dominate the White House and what Democrats can do to continue their efforts to turn the Red tide. Equipped with rare access to exit polls, exclusive interviews and unprecedented research data, Kuhn examines the role of gender and racial identity and each party's gains and losses through the social changes of the last fifty years.

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288 pages
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English
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St. Martin's Griffin
Publication date

September 16, 2008
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5.75 x 0.77 x 9.02 inches
ISBN-10

023060806X
ISBN-13

978-0230608061
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Archilochus once said, 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' David Paul Kuhn, a seasoned and compelling political writer, obviously knows many things...The Neglected Voter is a smooth, fast-moving tour through presidential election history since 1960, sprinkled with interesting voter statistics. It's entertaining, full of pithy quotes from winners and losers, hard to put down. I enjoyed it, and so would anyone interested in presidential politics. (David C. Acheson, The Washington Times, November 11, 2007)

Democrats will not get very far by blaming the voter. David Paul Kuhn, author of "The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma" points out that moral issues cannot easily be separated from economic ones. Poor people fret more about family breakdown because they see more of it than rich people do and its consequences, for them, are worse. (Economist)

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. We know a lot about why women vote disproportionately Democratic, but until David Paul Kuhn undertook this sophisticated, absorbing study, no one had adequately explained why men vote disproportionately Republican. 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 Sabato, founder and director of the University of Virginia 's Center for Politics and author of A More Perfect Constitution)

A brilliantly insightful analysis of American politics at the national level. Every Democrat should read this book. (General Wesley K. Clark, author of A Time To Lead)

Kuhn accurately links the Republican dominance of the past 40 years to the loss of the Haggard vote…[and] wisely suggests a ploy similar to John Kennedy's in 1960: Make the argument that we're weaker because of the Republicans. (Joe Klein, Time Magazine:)

About the Author

David Paul Kuhn is a Senior Political Writer and news analyst for The Politico. He covered the 2004 election for CBSNews.com and has also written for The Washington Post Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Salon.com, and the Tokyo-based Yomiuri Shimbun. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (September 16, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 023060806X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0230608061
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.77 x 9.02 inches

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David Paul Kuhn is a writer, investigative reporter and political analyst living in New York City. He is the author of, most recently, "THE HARDHAT RIOT: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution," which the New York Times named one of the "100 Notable Books of 2020." This "riveting book" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) is "engrossing, well-crafted ... sharp" (Washington Post book review), a "crucial" book on the "split between a well-educated elite and an increasingly discontented working class" (Tom Edsall, New York Times), and is "perhaps the best book ever on how Democrats lost the white working class" (political strategist James Carville).

Kuhn has held senior writing positions across the political-media landscape, from Politico to CBSnews.com. He has also written for The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, New Republic, National Review, and Los Angeles Times, among others, and regularly appeared on networks ranging from BBC to Fox News. As the Macmillan Speakers Bureau described him, "David Paul Kuhn is an expert analyst of presidential and gender politics." He is also the author of the political novel "What Makes It Worthy" ("A love story and an exposé on modern American campaigns," Kirkus) and "The Neglected Voter" ("A brilliantly insightful analysis of American politics," General Wes Clark).

Kuhn has covered four presidential campaigns and politics from Washington to the United Nations, and driven across the United States for CBS News documenting Americans' lives and outlooks. He has reported on events from the epicenter of the collapse of the World Trade Center to North Korean backroom nuclear negotiations. Earlier in his career, he reported on the United States for the Tokyo-based Yomiuri Shimbun, the world's most widely circulated newspaper.

- Read more about him: DavidPaulKuhn.com. He can be reached at DPK4Media@Gmail.com

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Tyro

Should Be Read

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2008

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David Paul Kuhn, a journalist for outlets that cross party lines, handles a touchy subject with exceptional sobriety. His masterstroke is to neither criticize nor aggrandize the left, but to simply analyze how, practically, Democrats can win elections. This engagingly-written book left me feeling that I understood a great deal more about the electoral politics of my lifetime. Kuhn regards "masculine values" of honor and grit to be at the heart of the optimistic American point of view. By mocking or failing to represent these values, the Democrats lost their majority and their connection with the white (especially male) working class. It is notable that he quotes from right as well as left-wing figures, and that he quotes so often from Norman Mailer. It is as if Kuhn had to resort to the recently-deceased Mailer to find someone who stood classic notions of masculinity. A book whose title calls white men "neglected" will never sell as well as one like "who needs men?" or "stupid white men," but Kuhn's objectivity may actually change a few minds. There is a danger, however, that it will be overlooked because it doesn't fit neatly onto either side of the culture wars. That would be a shame. The book illuminates far more than its central topic.

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Gordon E. Finley

Most Important Book for the 2008 Elections/2014 Elections

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2007

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In my view, gender is going to the the fault line of the 2008 elections and this book does an outstanding job of explaining the history and current state of gender politics.

It absolutely is a must read for every candidate and his/her policy staff. Without understanding this book, they have little chance of winning the nearly 40% of the total vote constituted by the Neglected White Male Voter.

P.S. I was off by 6 years. In retrospect it clearly would have been the most important book for the 2014 elections! (updated P.S. added on 11/9/14)

Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology (Emeritus)
Florida International University
Miami

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GBC

Want to know how a bigot got elected president?

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019

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Written prior to Obama's defeat of McCain, this book may have seemed a bit off the mark in 2009. But in the Trump era it is required reading, capably explaining why poorly educated white midwesterners abandoned the democratic party, and put Trump in office.

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Steven E. Medved

Excellent book for conservatives and liberals and independents

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2013

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You seldom get to read a book that appeals to all who are interested in politics, here is that book. I found the book well written and if you look at the cover and are interested you will be happy with the contents.

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Shallow Thinking Offering Shallow Solutions

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2016

Another shallow analysis saying that if progressives only double down on programs to help the working class, they'll win every time. This ignores the race and misogyny tactics of the opposition aimed at getting working class voters to reject those programs because they'll help "those people."

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sara mancini

A refreshing look at the gender gap

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2007

I read this book in two days. It's intense, a really good read, and the best writing is, as others have said, when the author brings you inside the presidential races, most potently the ones that I never lived through but shaped so much of the politics I now do indeed live through, the late 1960s. Perhaps it was the polling data, which he does do a strikingly well job weaving with the narrative, but I had never looked at the gender gap this way. It's crazy but I cannot recall ever reading about the MALE side of the gender gap (and I read much of everything on politics): what Kuhn calls the White Male Gap. This is, straight away, a book about white guys, more than a third of our voters (which surprised me). At times I felt like I was reading about my father, who left Democrats with Reagan and as upset as he is at Bush, still can't get his heart around voting for a liberal. After reading this book, I finally understand why, why it all went down, why it is all around me when i'm talking politics, and why when these men in some sense abandoned the Democratic Party they took its ability to win a majority of Americans with them. This is the metaphor Kuhn uses, one of a divorce between Democrats and white men. It is indeed worth pondering... I recommend this book very much.

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Roger Gay

what it says

Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2007

I'm a little disappointed that the coverage is limited to white people, but I knew that going in - obvious even from the title. It might be unfair of me not to give the book a higher rating. It is what it's advertised to be. It is well written, interesting and entertaining at times.

The reason I'm knocking off points is because I can't fight off the nagging feeling that there might be a reason that someone concerned about the future of the Democratic Party would focus in this way. I know that black men have had good reason to run from the party as well, as well as anyone concerned about families and the institution of marriage. Not that Republicans are much of an alternative - but sheesh!

The focus on white men remains in the vein of political rhetoric established by spin-doctors and talking heads. David Kuhn is part of that crowd, so -- like I say -- nothing dishonest IMO in the marketing of the book. I guess I just want more from a book than reinforcement of the spin on TV, and I'm concerned that books such as these may tend to keep the debate so narrowly focused that political candidates can navigate "issues" without ever being confronted by the real political and social problems they've caused.

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