Wallace ─ The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace

Wallace is the classic portrait of one of the century's most fiery and controversial political figures. Initially conceived as a novel, Marshall Frady's biography retains the narrative force and descriptive powers of fiction. This is a depiction of George Wallace, a seminal figure of the second half of the twentieth century whose influence has altered the course of national politics.

A native South Carolinian, Marshall Frady has been a journalist for more than 25 years, writing principally on political figures and racial and social tensions in the American culture, first as a correspondent for?Newsweek, then for?Life,?Harper's,?Esquire,?The New York Review of Books,?The Sunday Times?(London),?The Atlantic Monthly, and most recently?The New Yorker. In the 1980s, he was chief writer and correspondent for?ABC News Closeup?and a correspondent for?Nightline. He is the author of the acclaimed biographies?Wallace?and?Billy Graham: A Parable of American Righteousness.