Welcome to politics and prose. I am brad graham, corner of the bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and we are very delighted this seeking to be hosting Nicole Hemmer who is here to talk about her new book, partisans the conservative revolutionaries who remade american politics in the 1990s. Nicole is a political historian and founding director of the new study of thee presidency at vanderbilt university. She is also a cofounder of made by history, the historical Analysis Section in the shWashington Post and she wris regularly for a number of other publications. In a book six years ago messengers of the right, nicole traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the mid20th century. In her new book she looks at why the Republican Party in the 1990s shifted from the kind of conservatism that Ronald Reagan had represented in the previous decade, conservatism that was optimistic and popular, to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservatism. It was a per