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    Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
            Nicole Hemmer
                
                    
                        
                            Season 1
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            Episode 106
                        
                    
                
            
            
            Vanderbilt University history professor Nicole Hemmer discusses her latest book, Partisans, on the marked changes the GOP has undergone since the celebrated presidency of Republican icon Ronald Reagan nearly 40 years ago.
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