“Boogie Man” hits the highlights of his incendiary career and fills in both political backstory and personal history with evident energy. But this account of his career doesn’t make for particularly ...

“The Prince of Sleaze” was among the nicer phrases used to describe Lee Atwater, the Republican campaign operative who changed politics, probably forever, into a pit of lies, smears, racism and ...

The boogeyman, or bogeyman, is an English folktale creature, one who's been part of UK lore as far back as the 16th century. Accounts vary, but the basic idea was that the boogeyman was some kind of ...

The man Democrats loved to hate receives a docu portrait Republicans might chafe at in "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story." Atwater arrived the political scene, first as a key organizer for College ...

Lee sometimes reminded me of a wolverine, sort of chewing through the plywood, and he had a vaguely marsupial look about him, always sniffing the air. Harvey Leroy Atwater is legendary. The man behind ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Boogie Man kicks off with a musical montage, intercutting footage of legendary ...

Lee Atwater, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, is remembered for being a ruthless political operative. But in a new documentary about Atwater's controversial life and legacy, ...