Social scientists explain the Tea Party movement : with a selection of primary documents / edited by Roger chapman ; with a foreword by John Calhoun.

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The book deals with the various facets of the Tea Party movement. The book shows the irony in the Tea Party claims that it is a nativist movement drawing on fundamental principles from the Constitution. In fact, most of the ideological base of the movement comes from the writings of Russian born Ayn Rand, Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and the French economic journalist Claude-Frederic Bastiat. None of these people had anything to do with the American Revolution.

Social Scientists Explain the Tea Party Movement With a Selection of Primary Documents; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Truth Exalts America: Religious History, the Tea Party, and the Conflicted Meaning of the American Founding; Chapter Two Faith in the Founders: The Tea Party and the Fundamental Constitutionalism; Chapter Three Not Exactly an American Cup of Tea: The Foreign Context of the Nativist Movement Known as the Tea Party; Chapter Four Revisiting the Tea Party: Obesity and Food Consumption Laws in America

Chapter Five The Tea Party: A Civil Religious Revival MovementChapter Six Religious Practice, Social Issues, and the Tea Party; Chapter Seven The Tea Party and Narrow-Casting Media; Chapter Eight ""The Tea Party Doesn't See Color"": Locating the Individualist Basis of the Tea Party's Racial Ideology; Chapter Nine Sarah Palin's Nature: The Tea Party and Environmentalism; Chapter Ten The Tea Party and the Unions: Class Struggle in America at the Opening of the 21st Century; Appendix; Index

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