Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story Soundtrack (2008)

Synopsis

The Murrow, Polk and IDA award-winning documentary Boogie Man follows Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rise from the South to chairman of the Republican Party made him a political rock star. He mentored George W. Bush and Karl Rove as he led the Republican Party to historic victories, helped make liberal a dirty word, and transformed the way America chooses our presidents. In interviews with Republicans and friends of Atwater, the Boogie Man examines his role in America's turn to the right. To Democrats offended by the 1988 Willie Horton controversy, Atwater was a ruthless political assassin dubbed by one congressman "the wickedest man in America." The film examines his irreverent sense of humor, his understanding of America's heart and his unapologetic view of politics as war. It ends with a portrait of a cynic's deathbed search for meaning.

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