Politics

How George Wallace Harnessed Hate

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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.

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On a cold, rain-flicked night in 1967 a rickety twin-engine Convair 240 began a blind and uncertain descent through low clouds, abruptly breaking out over the scattered watery lights of Concord, New Hampshire.

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