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This is a masterful treatment of a time when the Republican Party was truly a minority party, and an adroit explanation of how it began to lift itself out of the doldrums. -- North Carolina Historical Review

This book makes a necessary correction to our understanding of the history of conservatism and the Republican party, and it will be useful for scholars, graduates, and upper-level undergraduates.--Journal of American History [A] judicious and timely account.--The Historian Bowen offers a convincing account of the demise of Dewey's moderate Republicanism and Taft's Old Guard.--Kansas History This is a masterful treatment of a time when the Republican Party was truly a minority party, and an adroit explanation of how it began to lift itself out of the doldrums.--North Carolina Historical Review A detailed, interesting, even intriguing investigation. . . . Through careful analysis of archival material, news and magazine accounts, and the writings of other scholars, Bowen tells a lively and largely well written story about ideas, politics, egos, and both good and bad decisions.--Florida Historical Quarterly Explore[s] in insightful ways American political developments during the 1940s and 1950s. . . . [It] merit[s] wide attention.--International Social Science Review

[A] judicious and timely account.--The Historian This book makes a necessary correction to our understanding of the history of conservatism and the Republican party, and it will be useful for scholars, graduates, and upper-level undergraduates.--Journal of American History Explore[s] in insightful ways American political developments during the 1940s and 1950s. . . . [It] merit[s] wide attention.--International Social Science Review Bowen offers a convincing account of the demise of Dewey's moderate Republicanism and Taft's Old Guard.--Kansas History This is a masterful treatment of a time when the Republican Party was truly a minority party, and an adroit explanation of how it began to lift itself out of the doldrums.--North Carolina Historical Review A detailed, interesting, even intriguing investigation. . . . Through careful analysis of archival material, news and magazine accounts, and the writings of other scholars, Bowen tells a lively and largely well written story about ideas, politics, egos, and both good and bad decisions.--Florida Historical Quarterly

Explore[s] in insightful ways American political developments during the 1940s and 1950s. . . . [It] merit[s] wide attention.-- International Social Science Review

A detailed, interesting, even intriguing investigation. . . . Through careful analysis of archival material, news and magazine accounts, and the writings of other scholars, Bowen tells a lively and largely well written story about ideas, politics, egos, and both good and bad decisions.--Florida Historical Quarterly This book makes a necessary correction to our understanding of the history of conservatism and the Republican party, and it will be useful for scholars, graduates, and upper-level undergraduates.--Journal of American History [A] judicious and timely account.--The Historian Explore[s] in insightful ways American political developments during the 1940s and 1950s. . . . [It] merit[s] wide attention.--International Social Science Review Bowen offers a convincing account of the demise of Dewey's moderate Republicanism and Taft's Old Guard.--Kansas History This is a masterful treatment of a time when the Republican Party was truly a minority party, and an adroit explanation of how it began to lift itself out of the doldrums.--North Carolina Historical Review

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Michael Bowen is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Florida.

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