Republican Populist
Subtitle: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813943268
Subjects: United states, history
Description: "This book examines Spiro Agnew as a politician who, under the tutelage of William Safire, Pat Buchanan, Kevin Phillips, and Richard Nixon, became a spokesman for a right-wing populism that enabled Republicans to wrest the title "the people's party," from the Democrats. Agnew provides a useful point of entry to understand the ascendancy of anti-elitist, populist Republican conservatism of figures like Goldwater, Agnew, Buchanan, and Reagan, and the larger transformation of the Republican Party rooted in anti-New Deal conservatism of the 1930s"--