Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party - Softcover

Rosenthal, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520274237 ISBN 13: 9780520274235

Publisher: University of California Press, 2012

Synopsis

In the Spring of 2009, the Tea Party emerged onto the American political scene. In the wake of Obama's election, as commentators proclaimed the "death of conservatism", Tax Day rallies and Tea Party showdowns at congressional town hall meetings marked a new and unexpected chapter in American conservatism. Accessible to students and general readers, "Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party" brings together leading scholars and experts on the American Right to examine a political movement that electrified American society. Topics addressed by the volume's contributors include the Tea Party's roots in earlier mass movements of the Right and in distinctive forms of American populism and conservatism, the significance of class, race and gender to the rise and successes of the Tea Party, the effect of the Tea Party on the Republican Party, the relationship between the Tea Party and the Religious Right, and the contradiction between the grass-roots nature of the Tea Party and the established political financing behind it. Throughout the volume, authors provide detailed and often surprising accounts of the movement's development at local and national levels. In an Epilogue, the Editors address the relationship between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Review:

"Steep is an important source for an understanding of the present and future polarization of US politics."--Times Higher Education (08/24/2012)

"Excellent. . . . These essays bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and offer welcome evidence in support of their arguments. . . . Recommended."-- (04/01/2013)

About the Author:

Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal is Executive Director and Lead Researcher of the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements. Dr. Christine Trost is Program Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements at UC Berkeley. She also serves as Assistant Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0520274237
• ISBN 13: 9780520274235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308