Boiling Mad Behind the Lines in Tea Party America

Name: Boiling Mad Behind the Lines in Tea Party America
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ISBN: 9780312610548

ISBN-10: 0312610548

ISBN-13: 9780312610548

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kate Zernike

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"Concise [and] elegantly written. . . . A convincing portrait of the movement's most ardent activists." Los Angeles Times They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recessionthousands of angry voters railing against bailouts and big governmentand within the year, the Tea Party had changed the terms of debate in Washington. This new populist movement set the agenda for the 2010 midterm elections, propelling a historic shift of power in Congress and capturing the mood of an anxious country. By election day, a remarkable four in ten voters called themselves Tea Party supporters. Boiling Madis Kate Zernike's eye-opening look inside the Tea Party, introducing us to its cast of unlikely…

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 9/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Kate Zernike is a national correspondent for The New York Times and was a member of the team that shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She is author of the book Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives with her family outside New York City.



Prologue



"This is America!"



"Hard work beats Daddy's money"



"Get off our backs, damn it!"



"Wc 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"


Epmogue


Afterword


Appendix: New York Times/CBS News Poll of Tea Party Supporters


Acknowleogments


Index