The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American PoliticsCombining 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.” |
Contents
THE MUSE OF HISTORY | 17 |
STUDENT AND SOLDIER IVE DONE MY PART | 45 |
THE MORAL COMPASS OF AMBITION | 68 |
THE THREADS RAN THROUGH THE KENNEDYS FACE THE GOVERNOR | 110 |
WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS THE STAND IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE DOOR | 133 |
ALL OF US ARE VICTIMS | 156 |
A TREMOR NOT AN EARTHQUAKE GEORGE WALLACE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1964 | 195 |
ON WHAT MEAT DOTH THIS LITTLE CAESAR FEED? | 226 |
RICHARD NIXON GEORGE WALLACE AND THE SOUTHERNIZATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS | 324 |
THE WARS OF RICHARD NIXON THE SURVIVAL OF GEORGE WALLACE 19691970 | 371 |
SEND THEM A MESSAGE VARIATIONS ON A THEME | 415 |
Attention Must Be Paid The Legacy of George Wallace | 451 |
NOTES | 475 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 531 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 557 |
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STAND UP FOR ALABAMA THE QUEEN AND HER CONSORT IN A CAPTIVE STATE | 264 |
STAND UP FOR AMERICA THE POLITICS OF ALIENATION | 294 |
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