At the Tea Party
Subtitle: the wing nuts, whack jobs and whitey-whiteness of the new Republican right-- and why we should take it seriously
By: edited by Laura Flanders
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781935928232; 9781935928225
Subjects: Politics and government; Political psychology; Political culture; Tea Party movement; Conservatism; Radicalism; Right and left (Political science)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342).
Table of contents: title: Behold the Becchanal! / Laura Flanders; title: Dropping in on the Tea Party / Gary Younge; title: Something new on the mall / Michael Tomasky; title: 'On 9/11, I think they hit the wrong building' / Mike Madden; title: Lobbyist money + right-wing extremists = Tea Party / David A. Love; title: Mongrel politics and an American mind / JoAnn Wypijewski; title: Texas hold 'em, Tea Party style / Bob Moser; title: Labor and the Tea Parties / Laura Flanders, Ed Ott, and Michael Johns; title: What's with the crying? / Laura Flanders, Alexander Zaitchik, and Rick Perlstein; title: Putting the sheets on: the Tea Party shows its colors / Bill Fletcher Jr.; title: Beck's incendiary angst is dangerously close to having a body count / Eric Boehlert; title: White power USA / Laura Flanders, Rick Rowley, Chip Berlet, and Jonathan "J.D." Meadows; title: Imagine: protest, insurgency, and the workings of white privilege / Tim Wise; title: How Mormonism built Glenn Beck / Joanna Brooks; title: Gun ownership: 'an obligation to God' / Sarah Posner and Julie Ingersoll; title: Is this the birth of a nation? / Melissa Harris-Lacewell; title: The mad Tea Party / Richard Kim; title: Tea Partiers say slavery not race-related / Jule Ingersoll; title: Progressives and 'bitter' white America / Kai Wright; title: The pedagogy of shock (and grandiose lunacy) / Lisa Duggan; title: Glenn Beck, America's historian laureate / Greg Grandin; title: More poodle than panther: a review of Glenn Beck's 'The overton window' / Barry Eisler; title: Beckonomics / Richard Wolff; title: Republicans and the Tea Party of no / Arun Gupta; title: Glenn Beck: out-organizing the organizers / Sally Kohn; title: Tea Party tech / Deanna Zandt; title: Sex and the GOP / Betsy Reed; title: Is Sarah Palin porn? / Jack Hitt; title: The Tea Party and the new right-wing Christian feminism / Ruth Rosen; title: Last column about Sarah Palin; title: ever / Katha Pollitt; title: The inevitable rise and quasi liberation of Nikki Haley / Sarah Jaffe; title: Alaskans hate quitters / Shannyn Moore; title: At last a citizen movement the corporate media can love / Peter Hart and Steve Rendell; title: Glenn Beck and left-right confusion / Glenn Greenwald; title: Glenn Beck's golden fleece: the right wing's paranoid pitch for overpriced gold / Stephanie Mencimer; title: Falling for the ACORN hoax: the strange 'journalism' of James O'Keefe / Veronica Cassidy; title: Apologies to the Beckster / W. Kamau Bell; title: Tea Party in the Sonora: for the future of GOP governance, look to Arizona / Ken Silverstein; title: Democrats: remember the ladies! / Rebecca Traister; title: This country needs a few good communists / Chris Hedges; title: Obama, the fallen messiah / Max Blumenthal; title: Downhill from Greensboro: the left, 1960-2010 / Alexander Cockburn; title: The U.S. social forum: the anti-Tea Party experience / Bill Fletcher Jr.; title: Populism is not about mobs / Jim Hightower; title: Fight the right: looking forward, looking back / Suzanne Pharr, Eric Ward, Tarso Ramos, Rachel Carroll, Marcy Westerling, and Scot Nakagawa.