The Rise of the Tea Party
Political Discontent and Corporate Media in the Age of Obama
DiMaggio, Anthony
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, New York, USA
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 288pp ISBN: 978-1-58367-247-1
Dewey: 320.520973
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX15996
A socio-political analysis of the Tea Party that probes its history, organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media.
Abstract:
What to make of the Tea Party? To some, it is a grassroots movement aiming to reclaim an out-of-touch government for the people. To others, it is a proto-fascist organization of the misinformed and manipulated lower middle class. Either way, it is surely one of the most significant forms of reaction in the age of Obama.
In this definitive socio-political analysis of the Tea Party, Anthony DiMaggio examines the Tea Party phenomenon, using a vast array of primary and secondary sources as well as first-hand observation. He traces the history of the Tea Party and analyzes its organizational structure, membership, ideological coherence, and relationship to the mass media. And, perhaps most importantly, he asks: is it really a movement or just a form of “manufactured dissent” engineered by capital?
[From publisher]
Subject Headings
