Frontline - Season 26 Episode 14 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

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Frontline - Season 26 Episode 14 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Frontline - Season 26 Episode 14 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Overview: In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern, take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. Through eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and adversaries, the film explores the life of the controversial political operative who mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush, led the GOP to historic victories, and wrote the party's winning playbook. The story tracks Atwater's rise from his beginnings in South Carolina as a high school election kingmaker all the way to the White House and his subsequent battle with cancer and final search for forgiveness and redemption. To Democrats, Atwater was a political assassin who one Congresswoman dubbed "the most evil man in America," but to Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American voter and his unapologetic vision of politics as warfare.

Watch Trailer First Air Date: Jan 17, 1983 Last Air date: Jan 07, 2025 Season: 44 Season Episode: 822 Episode Runtime: 55 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 7.39 / 10 by 40 users Popularity: 557.652 Language: English

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