Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-08-26

Books mentioned on Part One: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us President(s) George Bush

2 books · With Garrison Davis · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Robert sits down with Garrison Davis to discuss the life and times of Lee Atwater, the arch inventor of Republican dirty tricks politics. (3 Part Series, releasing all this week) Sources: https://www.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

1. 

   The Bad Boy Book

   John Murray · at 7:33

   Discussed

   “In the book Bad Boy, a biography of Lee Atwater, John Brady writes, "The pages were Republicans in an era when there was no Republican party in South Carolina. In 1932, when the framed portrait of FDR replaced the picture of Herbert Hoover in the classrooms of Spartanberg, there was enthusiastic applause from all but the page children who sat”

   Robert Evans Part One: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us P… 2025-08-26 Listen at 7:33

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible
2. 

   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald; Fred Fordham · at 46:53

   F.

   Discussed

   “He really did read The Great Gatsby. Pinkerton recalls fondly.”

   Robert Evans Part One: Lee Atwater: The Political Dirty Tricks Artist Who Gave us P… 2025-08-26 Listen at 46:53

   Where to get it

   Amazon Audible