Crashing the Tea Party : Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics.
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- computer
- online resource
- 9781315635408
- 320.520973
- JK2391.T43S77 2011
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue Making Tea from the Top Down -- CHAPTER I The Tea Party Does Not Exist Reflections on a Not-So-New "Movement" and the Deeply Conservative Essence of U.S. Political Culture -- CHAPTER 2 "Turning the World Upside Down" From the Original Tea Party to the Current Masquerade -- CHAPTER 3 Tea Party "Super Republicans" Who They Are, What They Believe -- CHAPTER 4 Tea Party Racism -- CHAPTER 5 Return of "the Paranoid Style in American Politics" Authoritarianism and Hyperignorance in Tea Party Nation -- CHAPTER 6 Astroturf to the Core Reflections on a Mass-Mediated "Movement -- CHAPTER 7 Elections 2010 The Democrats' Midterm Disaster, the Tea Party, and the Challenge to Progressives -- CHAPTER 8 Prospects for a Progressive Revival -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Authors.
Based on first-hand observation of local Tea Party chapters, undertakes a critical examination of the movement from the national and local level.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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