Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)
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Critic Reviews for Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
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Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics.
By the end of Forbes' brisk, economical portrait, Atwater has been revealed as a repugnant and pathetic soul--and a political visionary, among the first to fully understand and harness the raw power of voters' fears.
Conventional but absorbing.
Stricken with brain cancer in 1990, Atwater renounced his Machiavellian ways, but as Forbes points out, his legacy lives on in his eager proteges Karl Rove and George W. Bush.
Boogie Man is a fascinating portrait of an almost likable rogue.
Instead of attempting a character study, Boogie Man returns an indictment.
Audience Reviews for Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
It tells its story in a way you might expect, but it has a few fascinating moments where even Atwater's most ardent defenders of his political tactics in Republican campaigns still decry him as a vicious monster capable of anything. It might even be fair to say that they only liked him because he was on their side.
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