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The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace...

In 1989, Lee Atwater was a political rock star. After masterminding George H.W. Bush's presidential victory over Michael Dukakis, the colorful, blues guitar-playing Atwater was relishing his...

In 1981, Atwater, after a decade as South Carolina’s most effective Republican operative, was working in Ronald Reagan’s White House when he was interviewed by Alexander Lamis, a political...

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story is a 2008 U.S. documentary on the controversial campaign tactics used by Lee Atwater, while working on George H. W. Bush 's 1988 presidential election campaign, and how those tactics have transformed presidential campaigns in the United States .

In a detailed and candid article about his career and his fight against an inoperable brain tumor, Lee Atwater has apologized to Michael S. Dukakis for the "naked cruelty" of a remark he made ...

Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a major architect of George Bush's Presidential election victory in 1988, died this morning at George Washington University...

Atwater, Harvey Leroy (“Lee”) (b. 27 February 1951 in Atlanta, Georgia; d. 29 March 1991 in Washington, D.C.), political consultant who developed the strategy known as “negative campaigning” and who became chairman of the Republican National Committee after engineering George Bush’s victory in the 1988 presidential election.

The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger ...