Muddle in the Middle, or The Class Act in Politics.(Review) (book review)

Nation, The, October, 2000 by METZGAR, JACK

AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN MAJORITY: Why the White 
Working Class Still Matters. 
By Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers. 
Basic Books. 205 pp. $27. 
 
THE WORKING CLASS MAJORITY: 
America's Best Kept Secret. 
By Michael Zweig. 
Cornell. 192 pp. $25. 

Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers's America's Forgotten Majority has been credited with convincing Al Gore last summer to adopt a populist campaign strategy built around "working families" and the mantra, "They're for the powerful, we're for the people." Republicans immediately accused the Vice President of "class warfare," and Business Week worried that Gore's rhetoric was tapping into a broad "anti-business" public mood. Pundits thought (or hoped) there would be a backlash among "suburban independents," but thus far none is...

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