Wingnuts how the lunatic fringe is hijacking America /

Avlon, John P.

Wingnuts how the lunatic fringe is hijacking America / [Texte imprimé] : John Avlon ; [foreword by Tina Brown] - New York : Beast Books, cop. 2010 - 1 vol. (XIX-284 p.) : couv. ill. ; 20 cm

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Foreword / by Tina Brown -- A wingnut glossary -- Introducing the Wingnuts -- Of tea parties and town halls -- Obama derangement syndrome -- The birth of white minority politics -- Polarizing for profit -- Sarah Palin and the Limbaugh brigades -- Hunting for heretics -- The big lie : birthers and truthers -- The hatriots : Armed and dangerous -- Conclusion: How to take America back from the lunatic fringe -- Acknowledgments

Discusses the increase of political pundits or individuals with extreme liberal and conservative ideologies, creating a state of hyper-partisanship in American politics that detrimentally affects the poltical process

978-0-9842951-1-1

United States--Politics and government--2009- Political culture--United States Right and left (Political science) Radicals--United States Political parties--United States

324.20973