Volume 22, Number 17 · October 30, 1975
The Return of George Wallace
By Marshall Frady
The Wallaces of Alabama
by George Wallace Jr., as told to James Gregory
Follett, 256 pp., $10.00
George Wallace's life by now has taken on symmetries of irony that would be almost too pat even for hack melodrama. It's as if he has passed out of reality altogether, and become a character in an Allen Drury novel. Throughout his clamorous career in the Sixties, he was always invigorated by potentials for spontaneous folk combustions and popular crises; he was captivated by a kind of populist romance of violence. Riding home from a campaign rally late one night in 1967, he chattered almost breathlessly in the back seat of the car, gesturing anticly with his stubby tattered cigar in the soft flare of headlights behind him.
Review, 10943 words
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