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Guest Blogger Catherine Rymph on Sarah Palin and Her Role in History - UNC Press Blog
Because I teach a course on U.S. Women’s Political History and wrote a book about women in the Republican Party, a lot of people these days have been popping into my office or popping up on email to ask what I think of Sarah Palin's nomination for vice-president. As a citizen, I have my opinions (as, it seems, does everyone). As a historian, though, I am reminded of another era in which a beleaguered GOP believed women leaders might help the Party regain prominence. In 1974, when Gerald Ford succeeded a disgraced Richard Nixon to...
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