Tea Party Patriots

The Second American Revolution

Mark Meckler, Jenny Beth Martin

• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781429942690
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

The definitive history of one of the most radical, revolutionary movements the country has ever seen, from those who started it all In 2009, an unemployed mother of two and a politically inexperienced northern California attorney met on a conference call that would end up starting one of the largest grassroots political organizations in American history, the Tea Party Patriots. Fueled by the fires of passion and patriotism, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin have become the faces of the most powerful political movement in the country, empowering their more than twenty million members by using both high-tech advances and the time-tested American tradition of rallying in public. Promoting the basic principles of the Tea Party Movement—free market, limited government, and fiscal responsiblity—the Tea Party Patriots have become the largest tea party organization in the world. With unparalleled access to the inner workings of the movement, Meckler and Martin hope to explain how the Tea Party came to be, what it is and is not, and perhaps most important, provide the first comprehensive, forward-looking document outlining a plan to restore America to its prior greatness. Never before has there been such an audience for this material. Americans of all political stripes have been waiting for a thorough and informative account of this movement. Straight from the co-founders themselves, Tea Party Patriots promises to be the definitive source for a political revolution.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. What the Tea Party Is, Our Core Values, and How It Grew So Quickly
• 2. What the Tea Party Believes about Economics
• 3. The Economic Pathway to Liberty
• 4. The Tea Party’s Interactions with Our Political System
• 5. The Political Pathway to Liberty
• 6. The Educational Tea Party
• 7. The Educational Pathway to Liberty
• 8. The Tea Party Goes to Court: What We Believe about the Judiciary
• 9. The Judicial Pathway to Liberty
• 10. The Tea Party on Television: What’s Happened to Our Popular Culture?
• 11. The Cultural Pathway to Liberty
• 12. The Tea Party Patriots’ Forty-Year Plan for America’s Future
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• Copyright