Boiling mad : inside Tea Party America / Kate Zernike.
2010
JK2391.T43 Z47 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Boiling mad : inside Tea Party America / Kate Zernike.
Author
Zernike, Kate.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805093483
0805093486
0805093486
Publication Details
New York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., c2010.
Language
English
Description
243 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
JK2391.T43 Z47 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
322.4/40973
Summary
The Tea Party movement has energized a lot of voters, but it has polarized the electorate, too. Agree or disagree, we must understand this movement to understand American politics in 2010 and beyond. This is journalist Kate Zernike's eye-opening look inside, introducing us to a cast of unlikely activists and the philosophy that animates them. She shows how the movement emerged from an unusual alliance of young Internet-savvy conservatives and older people alarmed at a country they no longer recognize. The movement is the latest manifestation of a long history of conservative discontent in America, breeding on a distrust of government that is older than the nation itself. But the Tea Partiers' grievances are rooted in the present, a response to the election of the nation's first black president and to the far-reaching government intervention that followed the economic crisis of 2008-2009. Though they are better educated and better off than most other Americans, they remain deeply pessimistic about the economy and the direction of the country.--From publisher description.
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
"This is America!"
"Hard work beats Daddy's money"
"Get off our backs, damn it!"
"We look at the original, primary source"
"Huzzah!"
"We've kind of changed the rules"
"It's a mission"
"We've been a little bit too nice"
"I have a message, a message from the Tea Party".
"Hard work beats Daddy's money"
"Get off our backs, damn it!"
"We look at the original, primary source"
"Huzzah!"
"We've kind of changed the rules"
"It's a mission"
"We've been a little bit too nice"
"I have a message, a message from the Tea Party".