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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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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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Title The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Author Dan T. Carter
Binding Paperback
Edition second edition
Pages 600
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher LSU Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Date 2000-02-01
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780807125977 / 0807125970
Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
Dimensions 9.22 x 6.1 x 1.25 in (23.42 x 15.49 x 3.18 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
Library of Congress subjects Wallace, George C, Conservatism - United States - History -
Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-54330
Dewey Decimal Code B

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Newsweek, 08/09/2010, Page 53

About the author

Dan T. Carter, Educational Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina and former president of the Southern Historical Association, 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, winner of the Avery O. Craven Award.