#195: What Happened to the Modern GOP?

On Politics & Polls this week, Julian Zelizer and Sam Wang discuss the roots of the modern Republican Party. Zelizer talks about his newly published book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of a New Republican Party,” which explores how Newt Gingrich’s political tactics and partisan maneuverings led to the modern GOP.

Julian Zelizer is co-host of Politics & Polls. He is the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and a CNN political analyst. He has written more than 100 op-eds and has edited and authored 21 books. He has been a fellow at the Brookings Institute, the New York Historical Society, New America, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.