Republican populist : Spiro Agnew and the origins of Donald Trump's America /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813943268 0813943264 |