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...think there's a populist bone in his body," says Alan Brinkley, a Columbia history professor and author of Voices of Protest, a study of Louisiana Sen. Huey P. Long and Father Charles Coughlin, two early-century populists...
...Perot's own behavior has been the opposite of a populist," Brinkley says. "He's been insulated from media and insulated from the people.... He's entirely a candidate of media packaging. He's made himself into a series of sound bites unmediated by any other group. Yes, there's the occasional rhetoric, but it's not populism...
...beginning, at least--in the spring,that is--there was a very visible populist elementto the Perot movement," Brinkley says. "Thatremains an element for the long-time supporters.But what's happening now has more to do with thedynamics of the campaign rather than anyparticular elements of Perot movement. [There are]increasing fears raised by the Bush campaign aboutvoting for Clinton, and there's a deep reluctanceto vote for Bush. [Perot] is convenient andattractive--largely because of the debates...
...begin plowing through the nine newspapers he reads every day. His Buddha-like serenity gives way to anger only when he speaks of the "television tyranny" of East Coast elites. Lamb decided when he first came to Washington that he didn't want someone like Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley shaping information...
...happened to Alan Brinkley, who for three straight years packed Sanders Theatre with his course on modern American history...