Republican populist : Spiro Agnew and the origins of Donald Trump's America

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Republican populist : Spiro Agnew and the origins of Donald Trump's America

(2019)

By: Holden, Charles J.

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

BIOGRAPHY/AGNEW,S

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Biography & Memoir	BIOGRAPHY/AGNEW,S	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019

DESCRIPTION

viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780813943268, 0813943264, 9780813943268, 40029519649

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

Refusing to knuckle under: a political temperament forged early -- Role reversal: the roots of the Republican revival -- The road to 1968: middle America, meet Spiro Agnew -- Becoming the spokesman for the silent majority -- Dixie's favorite: Agnew and the Southern strategy -- No contest -- From Agnew to Trump

"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"--