TV Frontline - Season 26 Episode 17 : Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story Frontline - Season 26 Episode 17 : Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story 7.4/10 by 46 users In the wake of yet another hard-fought and bitter presidential campaign, FRONTLINE presents a spirited and revealing biography of Lee Atwater, the charming, Machiavellian godfather of modern, take-no-prisoners Republican political campaigns. Through eye-opening interviews with Atwater's closest friends and adversaries, the film explores the life of the controversial political operative who mentored Karl Rove and George W. Bush, led the GOP to historic victories, and wrote the party's winning playbook. The story tracks Atwater's rise from his beginnings in South Carolina as a high school election kingmaker all the way to the White House and his subsequent battle with cancer and final search for forgiveness and redemption. To Democrats, Atwater was a political assassin who one Congresswoman dubbed "the most evil man in America," but to Republicans he remains a hero for his deep understanding of the American voter and his unapologetic vision of politics as warfare. Details Casts Posters Images Title Frontline - Season 26 Episode 17 : Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story Alternative Titles PBS Frontline, Frontline (PBS) First Air Date 1983-01-17 Last Air Date 2025-07-01 Number of Episodes 838 Number of Seasons 44 Genres Documentary, News, Networks PBS, Casts Will Lyman Plot Keywords , Self - Narrator (voice) Will Lyman Episodes List Frontline Season 26 :Episode 1 Cheney's Law Cheney's Law 2007-10-16 Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's... 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