Social Scientists Explain the Tea Party Movement with a Selection of Primary Documents
Author: | Chapman, Roger |
Year: | 2012 |
Pages: | 296 |
ISBN: | 0-7734-3037-7 978-0-7734-3037-2 |
Price: | $199.95 |
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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.
Reviews
“The complexity of the Tea Party gives rise to a great many different analytical approaches in this book. Provides a beginning point of reference for future academic studies of this very interesting development in American politics.”
-Prof. John Calhoun,
Palm Beach Atlantic University
(From the Foreword)
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Foreword by John Calhoun
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Truth Exalts America: Religious History,
the Tea Party, and the Conflicted
Meaning of the American Founding
by Gideon Mailer
Chapter 2
Faith in the Founders: The Tea Party and
Fundamental Constitutionalism
by Kurt Hohenstein
Chapter 3
Not Exactly an American Cup of Tea: The
Foreign Context of the Nativist
Movement Known as the Tea Party
by Roger Chapman
Chapter 4
Revisiting the Tea Party: Obesity and Food
Consumption Laws in America
by Alison Peck
Chapter 5
The Tea Party: A Civil Religious
Movement
by Flavio Hickel, Jr.
Chapter 6
Religious Practice, Social Issues, and the
Tea Party
by Heather A. Beasley
Chapter 7
The Tea Party and Narrow-Casting Media
by Justin P. Coffey
Chapter 8
“The Tea Party Doesn’t See Color”:
Locating the Individualist Basis of
the Tea Party’s Racial Ideology
by Nathanael P. Romero and
Christopher B. Zeichmann
Chapter 9
Sarah Palin’s Nature: The Tea Party and
Environmentalism
by Roger Chapman
Chapter 10
The Tea Party and the Unions: Class
Struggle in America at the Opening
of the 21st Century
by Dan La Botz
Appendix
Select Documents
Index