Can a brush with death change politicians? It did for notorious Alabama segregationist George Wallace

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par Donald Nieman, Professor of History and Provost Emeritus, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin’s bullet led me – a historian who has written about political polarization and the Civil Rights Movement – to think back to another norm-smashing populist who encountered death on the campaign trail: former Alabama governor and U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace.

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