Republican Populist

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"This book examines Spiro Agnew as a politician who, under the tutelage of William Safire, Pat Buchanan, Kevin Phillips, and Richard Nixon, became a spokesman for a right-wing populism that enabled Republicans to wrest the title "the people's party," from the Democrats. Agnew provides a useful point of entry to understand the ascendancy of anti-elitist, populist Republican conservatism of figures like Goldwater, Agnew, Buchanan, and Reagan, and the larger transformation of the Republican Party rooted in anti-New Deal conservatism of the 1930s"--

subjects: United states, history,  Agnew, spiro t., 1918-1996,  Republican party (u.s. : 1854-),  Vice-presidents, united states,  Populism,  Conservatism,  Political culture,  Right and left (political science),  United states, politics and government, 1969-1974,  Vice-Presidents,  Biography,  History,  Politics and government,  Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )