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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Street, Paul Louis, author.

Contributor:

Dimaggio, Anthony R., 1980-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tea Party movement.

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

The Tea Party has been the most high profile and controversial social movement in the US of recent times. But real analysis of the Tea Party remains slim - is it a genuine social movement or a topdown interest group created by the Republican Party and corporate funding? Crashing the Tea Party is based on first-hand observation of local Tea Party chapters, and undertakes a critical journalistic and scholarly examination from the national and local level. Paul Street and Anthony DiMaggio provide a carefully documented account which challenges conventional wisdoms. Crashing the Tea Party fills the gap in public understanding about this particular social movement, and how social movements in general relate today to the ideologies of left and right and the mass media.

Contents:

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

Notes:

First published 2011 by Paradigm Publishers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 28, 2016).

ISBN:

1-317-26193-3

1-315-63540-2

1-317-26192-5

9781315635408

OCLC:

932339493