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Book Review: What Are These Tea Parties About, Anyway?
Publius Forum ^ | 01/12/10 | Warner Todd Huston

Posted on 01/13/2010 9:42:13 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus

A new book about the Tea Party movement -- and a movement it really is -- will soon be hitting the shelves. "A New American Tea Party" penned by John M. O'Hara, one of the many folks that helped bring us some of those protests in early 2009, is a book that hopes that the reader will come away understanding and appreciating the Tea Party movement as a truly grassroots happening, a spontaneous outpouring of interest backed by true red, white and blue American ideals.

Author O'Hara, himself an early Tea Party organizer in Washington D.C. and the Chicago area, answers several questions with the book: what sparked the Tea Parties; is the name "Tea Party" itself a proper sobriquet; what do they mean; what does the future hold; and how do you make more?

The first thing one might notice is that O'Hara writes in a crisp, conversational style with short subchapters. This makes it ideal for reading bits at a time. This is not a dense treatment and I think his style makes the book very accessible to people of all ages -- without talking down to the young or dumbing it down for the more advanced reader...

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: johnohara; teaparty
Go get this book. It's pretty good.
1 posted on 01/13/2010 9:42:14 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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To: Mobile Vulgus
What Are These Tea Parties About, Anyway?

They're just places for racist, angry white people to congregate so that they can try to hatch evil plots to discredit the best, most smarterest President who has ever been!

2 posted on 01/13/2010 9:43:50 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus ("A politician who is poor is a poor politician." - Hank Gonzales)
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