Frontline
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 for forgiveness and redemption. To Democrats, Atwater was a political assassin who one Congresswoman dubbed "the most evil man in America," but to Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American voter and his unapologetic vision of politics as warfare.
Episodes in Season 26
Cheney's Law
56 min
Showdown With Iran
55 min
On Our Watch
54 min
The Medicated Child
116 min
Growing Up Online
54 min
A Dangerous Business Revisited
Rules of Engagement
116 min
Bush's War (1)
145 min
Bush's War (2)
114 min
Bad Voodoo's War
56 min
Sick Around the World
56 min
Storm Over Everest
105 min
Young & Restless in China
108 min
The Choice 2008
115 min
Heat
116 min
The War Briefing
56 min
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
The Hugo Chavez Show
84 min
