The Politics of Rage : George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics - Softcover

Carter, Dan T

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807121134 ISBN 13: 9780807121139

Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1996

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In the first unauthorized study of Wallace in two decades, a professor of history shows how Wallace's segregationist politics launched the anti-Washington populist movement that ultimately swept Republicans to power in 1994. 25,000 first printing.

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Combining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wallace, a populist who abandoned his ideals to become a national symbol of racism, and later begged for forgiveness. In The Politics of Rage, Carter argues persuasively that the four-time Alabama governor and four-time presidential candidate helped to establish the conservative political movement that put Ronald Reagan in the White House in 1980 and gave Newt Gingrich and the Republicans control of Congress in 1994. In this second edition, Carter updates Wallace's story with a look at the politician's death and the nation's reaction to it and gives a summary of his own sense of the legacy of "the most important loser in twentieth-century American politics".

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• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807121134
• ISBN 13: 9780807121139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 572