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 University Press, 1996

Synopsis

Combining biography with regional and national history, this work chronicles the story of George Wallace, a man who started his politics as a populist, abandoned his ideals to become a national symbol of racism, and later begged for forgiveness.

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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: Louisiana State University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807121134
• ISBN 13: 9780807121139
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 572