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Season 26 · Episode 17 ·
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern, take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. Through eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and adversaries, the film explores the life of the controversial political operative who mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush, led the GOP to historic victories, and wrote the party's winning playbook. The story tracks Atwater's rise from his beginnings in South Carolina as a high school election kingmaker all the way to the White House and his subsequent battle with cancer and final search f
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Episode 17 of season 26 of Frontline: “Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story”. Aired 2008-11-11. Watch it online free on ZapFlix.