In a TIME article about the relative wealth of American presidents and today’s crop of presidential aspirants, Richard Norton Smith makes the following reference:

As in other periods of economic distress, the 2012 election promises a referendum on the Forgotten Man. Is he the victim of capitalist redundancy and Wall Street ruthlessness to whom FDR brilliantly pitched his political revolution? Or is he the patriot at war with the popular culture, feeling his talents oppressed by Washington’s social engineers, who rallied to Richard Nixon in 1968?

The reference to the Forgotten Man might remind you of a book by that title from Amity Shlaes, who discussed the issue with Carolina Journal Radio in 2007.