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

Dan T. Carter (Author)

 
9780807125977: The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807125970 ISBN 13: 9780807125977
Publisher: LSU Press, 2000

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Dan T. Carter is Education Foundation Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and former president of the Southern Historical Association. He is the author of Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South, winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History; From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963- 1994; and When the War Was Over: The Failure of Self-Reconstruction in the South.

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".

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Publisher
LSU Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807125970
ISBN 13 
9780807125977
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
250