Boiling Mad: Behind the Lines in Tea Party America

Kate Zernike

ISBN 10: 0312610548 / ISBN 13: 9780312610548

Published by Griffin Publishing, 2011

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They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession - thousands of angry voters railing against bailouts and big government - and within the year, the Tea Party had changed the terms of debate in Washington. This new populist movement set the agenda for the 2010-midterm elections, propelling a historic shift of power in Congress and capturing the mood of an anxious country. By election day, a remarkable four in ten voters called themselves Tea Party supporters.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boiling Mad: Behind the Lines in Tea Party America
• Publisher: Griffin Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312610548
• ISBN 13: 9780312610548
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"Concise [and] elegantly written. . . . A convincing portrait of the movement's most ardent activists."―Los Angeles Times

They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession―thousands of angry voters railing against bailouts and big government―and within the year, the Tea Party had changed the terms of debate in Washington. This new populist movement set the agenda for the 2010 midterm elections, propelling a historic shift of power in Congress and capturing the mood of an anxious country. By election day, a remarkable four in ten voters called themselves Tea Party supporters.

Boiling Mad is Kate Zernike's eye-opening look inside the Tea Party, introducing us to its cast of unlikely activists and the philosophy and zeal that animate them. She shows how the movement emerged from an unusual alliance of young, Internet-savvy conservatives and older people who came to the movement out of fear and frustration. She takes us behind the scenes as well-connected groups in Washington move to mobilize the grassroots energy, and inside the campaign that best showed the movement's power and its contradictions. Putting the Tea Party in the context of other conservative revolts, Zernike shows us how the movement reflects important philosophical and cultural strains that have long been a feature of American politics.

About the Author

Kate Zernike is a national correspondent for The New York Times and was a member of the team that shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She is author of the book Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives with her family outside New York City.