Republican populist : Spiro Agnew and the origins of Donald Trump's America / Charles J. Holden, Zach Messitte, and Jerald E. Podair.
| Author/creator | Holden, Charles J. author. |
| Other author | Messitte, Zach P., 1968- author. |
| Other author | Podair, Jerald E., 1953- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. |
| Description | viii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-250) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Holden, Charles J., author. Republican populist Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 9780813943275 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2019006956 |
| ISBN | 9780813943268 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813943264 |