The whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history
In: The public square book series
Abstract
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take back America." Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, offers a careful and concerned look at American history according to the far right, from the "rant heard r
Verfügbarkeit
Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Princeton University Press
ISBN
9781400839810, 1400839815, 9781400836963, 1400836964, 1282821148, 9781282821149, 9780691153001
Seiten
x, 217
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