Nicole Hemmer

author of “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s”

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Associate professor of history and director of the Rogers Center for the Study of the Presidency at Vanderbilt University

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The modern Republican Party was created in the image of Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, and Rush Limbaugh, says Vanderbilt University’s Nicole Hemmer, author of “Partisans.”

Roots of today’s GOP come from Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan

The modern Republican Party was created in the image of Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, and Rush Limbaugh, says Vanderbilt University’s Nicole Hemmer, author of “Partisans.”

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