Thanks for joining us tonight. My name is maddie wolters, and on behalf of the harvard book tore and the nieman foundation, im very pleased to welcome you to this evenings event with Andrea Pitzer presenting her new book, one long night. Were pleased to have cspan2s booktv taping this event. When asking questions in the q a, please know that youll be recorded, and please wait a moment for the microphone to come to you before asking your question. Here at the Harvard Bookstore, were gearing up for a fall season absolutely packed with fantastic author events including talks with patty smith, katherine sorry. E. J. Dionne jr. For details on these and other upcoming events, visit harvard. Com events and sign up for our weekly email newsletter, or you can pick up one here. Tonights talk will conclude with some time for your questions after which well have a book signing right here at this table. The signing line will form through the doorway to my left, and copies of the book are sold at th
Be hosting niki hemmer whos here to talk about her new book partisans the conservative revolutionaries who remade american politics in the 1990s. Shes a political historian and founding director of the new center for the study of the presidency at vanderbilt university. She is cofounder of made by history, the historical Analysis Section of the Washington Post and she writes regularly for a number of other publications. In a book six years ago, messengers of all right she traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the 20th century. Her new work, she examines why the Republican Party in 1990s shifted from the kind of conservatism that Ronald Reagan represented in the previous decade that was optimistic and popular to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservativism. With a period of intensifying partisan conflict and a new fury took hold on the right when republicans grew less tolerant of dissension in the ranks and began viewing democrats not as opponents
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