The Tea Party explained : from crisis to crusade / Yuri Maltsev and Roman Skaskiw.

By:

Maltsev, Yuri [author.]

Contributor(s):

Skaskiw, Roman [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ideas explained series ; 12.Publication details: Chicago [Illinois] : Open Court, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780812698381
081269838X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tea Party Explained.DDC classification:

320.520973 23

LOC classification:

JK2391 .T43

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Contents:

Preface; 1. Two Elections; 2. How the Tea Party Began; 3. A Big Government Power Grab Energizes the Tea Party; 4. The Tea Party Landscape; 5. God and War; 6. The Tenth Amendment Movement; 7. The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street; 8. Battling the Beast; Epilogue: The Future of the Tea Party; Index.

Summary: The Tea Party showed its strength in the 2010 mid-terms. Despite the opposition of leading Republicans like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Lindsey Graham, 140 Tea Party candidates ran for Congress. Of the sixty House seats which moved from Democratic to Republican control, twenty-eight were won by Tea Party candidates. At the movement's height, 29 percent of Americans had?some ties" to the Tea Party, while 2 percent identified themselves as active members. The Tea Party first attracted the media spotlight with Rick Santelli's televised rant against the government's bailout of mortgage bo.

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The Tea Party showed its strength in the 2010 mid-terms. Despite the opposition of leading Republicans like Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Lindsey Graham, 140 Tea Party candidates ran for Congress. Of the sixty House seats which moved from Democratic to Republican control, twenty-eight were won by Tea Party candidates. At the movement's height, 29 percent of Americans had?some ties" to the Tea Party, while 2 percent identified themselves as active members. The Tea Party first attracted the media spotlight with Rick Santelli's televised rant against the government's bailout of mortgage bo.

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