Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America
“Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the Tea Party movement.”—Gail Collins,The New York Times “Illuminating… a picture of how different some Tea Partiers are from the Republican establishment’s view of the movement.”—The New York Times Book Review “[Zernike’s] concise, elegantly written book is a refreshing reminder of what traditional journalism — so often despised and discounted these days — can contribute to the public conversation. . . . A convincing portrait of the [tea party] movement’s most ardent activists.”—Los Angeles Times “A brisk chronicle of the people who have streamed to the protests [and] flocked to the polls.”—The New Republic “The most informative and readable.”—The Hill “The beauty ofBoiling Madis that it’s room-temperature calm. With fresh and surprising reporting, Kate Zernike cuts through the hype on both sides to show the Tea Party as it really is, not as partisans depict it. It’s a complete, balanced, incisive and important account of a reactionary movement that’s changing the country.”—Jonathan Alter, author ofThe Promise: President Obama, Year One