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The whites of their eyes : the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history / Jill Lepore.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lepore, Jill, 1966- author.
- Series:
- Public square (Princeton, N.J.)
- The public square book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Philosophy.
- United States.
- United States--Historiography--Social aspects.
- United States--Historiography--Political aspects.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.
- United States--History--Errors, inventions, etc.
- Tea Party movement.
- Right-wing extremists--United States.
- Right-wing extremists.
- Fundamentalism--United States.
- Fundamentalism.
- Evangelicalism--United States.
- Evangelicalism.
- Conservatism--United States--History.
- Conservatism.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Historiography--Political aspects.
- Historiography--Social aspects.
- Philosophy.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 207 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2010]
- Summary:
- Asserts that the Tea Party movement prefers to rewrite the history of the American Revolution as anti-intellectual and antipluralist.
- Contents:
- Party like it's 1773
- Ye olde media
- The book of ages
- How to commit revolution
- The past upon its throne
- Your superexcellent age
- Revering America.
- Notes:
- "Parts of this book were originally published in the 'New Yorker'."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-198) and index.
- Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2010.
- ISBN:
- 9780691150277
- 0691150273
- 9781400839810
- 1400839815
- OCLC:
- 651487361
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
- Book review (H-Net)
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