Wingnuts
Subtitle: how the lunatic fringe is hijacking America
By: John Avlon ; [foreword by Tina Brown]
Publisher: Beast Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780984295111
Subjects: Politics and government; Radicals; Political culture; Political parties; Right and left (Political science)
Description: Discusses the increase of political pundits or individuals with extreme liberal and conservative ideologies, creating a state of hyper-partisanship in American politics that detrimentally affects the poltical process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Tina Brown; title: A wingnut glossary; title: Introducing the Wingnuts; title: Of tea parties and town halls; title: Obama derangement syndrome; title: The birth of white minority politics; title: Polarizing for profit; title: Sarah Palin and the Limbaugh brigades; title: Hunting for heretics; title: The big lie : birthers and truthers; title: The hatriots : Armed and dangerous; title: Conclusion: How to take America back from the lunatic fringe; title: Acknowledgments.