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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.
- Stefan Forbes, Noland Walker, Tia Wou
- Stefan Forbes
- 2008
- Eric Alterman
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...
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.
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.
Sep 26, 2008 · Watch Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story with a subscription on Prime Video. Boogie Man is a complex, absorbing study of the contradictory life and times of architect of modern smear...
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- Documentary, Biography
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story. This documentary from director Stefan Forbes examines the political and personal life of the late Lee Atwater, notorious for his no-holds-barred strategies that powered the campaign of George H.W. Bush. Forbes analyzes Atwater's pivotal role in the rise of the Republican Party in the 1980s, and also documents ...
