i saw an American Revolution scholar talking about this book.. on the Tea Party.>Link>>

[sam sarrha]

http://www.amazon.com/Whites-Their-Eyes-Revolution-American/dp/0691150273/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286847089&sr=1-1

"snip...
Editorial Reviews
Product Description

Jill Lepore, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, offers a wry and bemused 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--the real one, that is. 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.

The Whites of Their Eyes reveals that the far right has embraced a narrative about America's founding that is not only a fable but is also, finally, a variety of fundamentalism--anti-intellectual, antihistorical, and dangerously antipluralist...snip"

i ordered it...

[Crystal Clarity]

1. That looks like it'd be a very good read

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