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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460557003321

Autore

Street Paul Louis.

Titolo

Crashing the Tea Party : mass media and the campaign to remake American politics / / Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-26193-3

1-315-63540-2

1-317-26192-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DimaggioAnthony R. <1980->

Disciplina

320.520973

Soggetti

Tea Party movement

Mass media - Political aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Paradigm Publishers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue Making Tea from the Top Down; CHAPTER I The Tea Party Does Not Exist Reflections on a Not-So-New ""Movement"" and the Deeply Conservative Essence of U.S. Political Culture; CHAPTER 2 ""Turning the World Upside Down"" From the Original Tea Party to the Current Masquerade; CHAPTER 3 Tea Party ""Super Republicans"" Who They Are, What They Believe; CHAPTER 4 Tea Party Racism; CHAPTER 5 Return of ""the Paranoid Style in American Politics"" Authoritarianism and Hyperignorance in Tea Party Nation

CHAPTER 6 Astroturf to the Core Reflections on a Mass-Mediated ""Movement""CHAPTER 7 Elections 2010 The Democrats' Midterm Disaster, the Tea Party, and the Challenge to Progressives; CHAPTER 8 Prospects for a Progressive Revival; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Authors