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

Carter, Dan T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684809168 ISBN 13: 9780684809168

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Synopsis

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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Review

"Carter has captured the essence ... in an easily readable, remarkably insightful biography of both Wallace and 'Wallaceism, ' recreating how the man and his movement 'to stand up for America' reshaped the language and limits of today's American political system".

-- Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Back Cover

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".

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684809168
• ISBN 13: 9780684809168
• Binding: Hardcover