Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics.

(3 Part Series, releasing all this week)

Sources:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/biography/lee-atwater

https://archive.is/STJGq

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https://andrewjazprosehill.substack.com/p/the-death-bed-confession-of-a-boogie

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https://brooklynrail.org/2012/02/express/letter-from-the-trail-atwaters-ghost/

Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics.
(3 Part Series, releasing all this week)
Sources:
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There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

Part One: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us President(s) George Bush

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/37dfc215-8294-4e80-a038-b34401731300/transcript