BOOK REVIEW: 'Blue-collar Conservatism' by Timothy J. Lombardo

BLUE-COLLAR CONSERVATISM: FRANK RIZZO'S PHILADELPHIA AND POPULIST POLITICS

By Timothy J. Lombardo

University of Pennsylvania Press, $37.50, 328 pages

In 2017, while there was a national campaign to tear down the statutes of Confederate soldiers and historical figures deemed racists by the left, some Philadelphia politicians and left-wing activists demanded ...