Charles J. Holden
Professor of history at St. Mary’s College of Maryland; co-author (with Zach Messitte and Jerald Podair) of Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America (University of Virginia Press, 2019); the wiki cites him as the author of The Republican National Convention That Shocked the Country (TIME “Made by History,” July 17, 2024), the 60th-anniversary retrospective tracing the through-line from the 1964 Cow Palace convention to the contemporary GOP.
The Holden-Messitte-Podair Republican Populist book is wiki-relevant beyond its TIME piece — it argues that Spiro Agnew is the under-recognized intermediate transmission node between Goldwater 1964 and Trump 2016, particularly for the rage-at-media and racially-coded-resentment registers. The book has not been ingested as a wiki source but is flagged as a candidate for future ingest.
Cross-References
- The Republican National Convention That Shocked the Country
- 1964 Republican National Convention
- Counterrevolution
Stub — single-source citation; expand if Republican Populist is ingested.