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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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