Clyde P. Weed
Clyde Weed recovers and analyzes the largely lost history of the Republican Party in the first half of the twentieth century. Exploring the internal dynamics of the GOP during those decades, Weed draws on a wide range of previously neglected sources to explore the fundamental transformation that the party experienced—and in the process to shed new light, as well, on the ideology and positions of Republican politics today.
Clyde P. Weed is author of The Nemesis of Reform: The Minority Republican Party During the Domestic New Deal.
"Explores an understudied anti-New Deal philosophy that affects contemporary policy discussions.... Highly recommended."—Choice
"An interesting glimpse at an under-examined period of the party’s history.... This examination offers insight into how the two major political parties have developed over the last 100 years."—Tyler Hughes, APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter
"Insightful and engaging.... Professor Weed confronts an important question: how did a party that was once such a potent modernizing force become, by 1936, such a powerful obstacle to reform? This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of US political development in the interwar decades and beyond."—Marc Allen Eisner, Wesleyan University
"An important and provocative book—impressively researched, vigorously argued."—Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University
