Nicole Hemmer

Nicole Hemmer is an associate professor of history and director of the Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.

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The Republican Party Was Trumpy Long Before Trump

The GOP today isn’t a break from the past so much as a direct result of it.
- Nicole Hemmer
- September 19, 2022
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Why the Vice Presidency Matters

Choosing a running mate used to be more about campaigning than governing. But after Richard Nixon’s ruinous relationship with Spiro Agnew, the job has changed. Introducing the executive vice presidency.
- Nicole Hemmer
- July 21, 2016
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The Three Books That Shook Conservative Media in 1964

The runaway success of A Choice Not an Echo and two others helped deliver Barry Goldwater the GOP presidential nomination and showed the power of the right-wing grassroots.
- Nicole Hemmer
- May 20, 2014
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The Conservative War on Liberal Media Has a Long History

Roger Ailes's success at Fox News is unique, but the project of creating a right-leaning alternative to established media stretches back to the 1940s.
- Nicole Hemmer
- January 17, 2014