Social scientists explain the tea party movement / 
with a selection of primary documents / edited by Roger Chapman ; with a foreword by John Calhoun. 
 - Lewiston, N.Y. :  E. Mellen Press,  c2012. 
 - xiii, 278 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Foreword by John Calhoun; 2. Truth Exalts America: Religious History, the Tea Party, and the Conflicted Meaning of the American Founding by Gideon Mailer; 3. Faith in the Founders: The Tea Party and Fundamental Constitutionalism by Kurt Hohenstein; 4. Not Exactly an American Cup of Tea: The Foreign Context of the Nativist Movement Known as the Tea Party by Roger Chapman; 5. Revisiting the Tea Party: Obesity and Food Consumption Laws in America by Alison Peck; 6. The Tea Party: A Civil Religious Movement by Flavio Hickel, Jr.; 7. Religious Practice, Social Issues, and the Tea Party by Heather A. Beasley; 8. The Tea Party and Narrow-Casting Media by Justin P. Coffey; 9. "The Tea Party Doesn't See Color": Locating the Individualist Basis of the Tea Party's Racial Ideology by Nathanael P. Romero and Christopher B. Zeichmann; 10. Sarah Palin's Nature: The Tea Party and Environmentalism by Roger Chapman; 11. The Tea Party and the Unions: Class Struggle in America at the Opening of the 21st Century by Dan La Botz. 
<br/><br/> Debunks the claim that the Tea Party is a nativist political movement with its roots in the American Revolution by looking at it from several angles. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780773430372 0773430377 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tea Party movement--United States.<br/>Política y gobierno--Estados Unidos.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government.<br/>Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JK 2391  / S678 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.520973