A film about former RNC Chair and George H.W. Bush campaign manager Lee Atwater is scheduled for release in October. The L.A. Times called it a balanced look at Atwater's influence on the way our Presidents are elected. The film studio released this promotional material:
Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at Lee Atwater, the blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a household name. He mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush while leading the Republican Party to historic victories and transforming the way America elects its Presidents.
In eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and enemies, Boogie Man sheds new light on his crucial role in America's shift to the right. To Democrats offended by his cutthroat style (to say nothing of the 1988 Willie Horton controversy), Atwater was a political assassin dubbed by one Congresswoman "the most evil man in America." But to many Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American heartland and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. Director Stefan Forbes offers a timely documentary for this election year as he examines the charming yet Machiavellian, beloved yet reviled godfather of the modern political campaign.
Atwater died at 40 on March 30, 1991 with a brain tumor. The New York Times covered his death, getting comments from then-President Bush and former President Reagan. Read the article here.
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