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Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story is a 2008 U.S. documentary on the controversial campaign tactics used by Lee Atwater, while working on George H. W. Bush's 1988 presidential election campaign, and how those tactics have transformed presidential campaigns in the United States.
Sep 26, 2008 · Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story: Directed by Stefan Forbes. With Lee Atwater, Tucker Eskew, Joe Sligh, Eric Alterman. The Murrow, Polk, and IDA Award-winning documentary Boogie Man is about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Stefan Forbes
- 2008-09-26
Boogie Man recounts how fellow South Carolinian Sen. Strom Thurmond took an interest in Atwater, tutoring him in the use of highly emotional wedge issues such as abortion and crime that would...
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. Loading the player… “Generous in spirit and nimble in technique, this riveting documentary about the Republican operative (who died of a brain tumor in 1991) reveals a scrappy genius rife with contradictions.”- Jeannette Catsoulis, NY Times Critic’s Pick.
Oct 29, 2008 · Learning that Tom Turnipseed, a Democratic opponent to his South Carolina congressional candidate, had received shock therapy as a young man, Atwater gleefully translated: "They had to hook him up to jumper cables." "Boogie Man" is a fascinating portrait of an almost likable rogue.
May 27, 2014 · This gripping political thriller tells the story of Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP positioned...
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- ROCO films
Sep 26, 2008 · Atwater introduced Ronald Reagan to white Southerners in a town famous only for the murder of civil rights volunteers. Eight years later, Atwater helped pave George H.W....
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