The Whites of Their Eyes The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History
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The Public Square
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Sprache:Englisch
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.08.2011
Verlag
Princeton University PressSeitenzahl
234
Maße (L/B/H)
21/14/1.3 cm
Gewicht
292 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-15300-1
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 round the world," which launched the Tea Party, to the Texas School Board's adoption of a social-studies curriculum that teaches that the United States was established as a Christian nation. Along the way, she provides rare insight into the eighteenth-century struggle for independence - a history of the Revolution, from the archives. Lepore traces the roots of the far right's reactionary history to the bicentennial in the 1970s, when no one could agree on what story a divided nation should tell about its unruly beginnings. Behind the Tea Party's Revolution, she argues, lies a nostalgic and even heartbreaking yearning for an imagined past - a time less troubled by ambiguity, strife, and uncertainty - a yearning for an America that never was
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