The politics of rage
Subtitle: George Wallace, the origins of the new conservatism, and the transformation of American politics
By: Dan T. Carter.
Edition: 2nd Lousiana pbk. ed.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
Subjects: Wallace, George C. 1919-; Governors -- Alabama -- Biography.; Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Alabama -- Politics and government -- 1951-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [551]-555) and index.