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Long before Donald Trump trashed the usual rules of US politics, there was George Wallace. In his classic biography, Marshall Frady gave us an indelible portrait of a demagogue.
Marshall Frady (1940-2004) was an American journalist noted for his coverage of the U.S. Civil Rights movement and for several books about the prominent figures in that struggle, including biographies of Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr. His first book, Wallace, is considered a classic work of American history.
Long before Donald Trump trashed the usual rules of US politics, there was George Wallace. In his classic biography, Marshall Frady gave us an indelible portrait of a demagogue.