¶ … Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics" by Dan T. Carter and "I've Got the Light of Freedom" by Charles Payne. Specifically, it will contain a comparative book review on the two books. These books reflect a specific time in our society when struggle and oppression were at their height, and both present different viewpoints on the same political time. Together, they are an intimate portrayal of a man, politics, and the power of a movement vs. The power of a man.
Both books cover southern politics in the 1960s and beyond, but from quite different perspectives. "The Politics of Rage" is an unauthorized biography of southern governor and presidential hopeful George C. Wallace, one of the most outspoken bigots and controversial politicians in our time. "He was the most influential loser in twentieth-century American politics" (Carter 468) and this could be the thesis of the book. Carter's book chronicles Wallace's life from his parents to his final political activities and death. Carter shows just how influential Wallace was in southern and national politics, and shows how Presidents Nixon and Reagan manipulated Wallace's popularity to gain Republican voters in the South.
I've Got the Light" is a chronology of the southern blacks' fight for freedom and equality, illustrating how a large group of apolitical society massed together to fight as one unit for their civil and political rights. This book uses a mainly chronological approach to show how change came to the south, and that it was far more prevalent than most people realize now, or at the time. It also shows how...
standard joke about America in the 1960s claims that, if you can remember the decade, you did not live through it. Although perhaps intended as a joke about drug usage, the joke also points in a serious way to social change in the decade, which was so rapid and far-reaching that it did seem like the world changed almost daily. This is the paradox of Todd Gitlin's "years of
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