Wingnuts [Texte imprimé] : how the lunatic fringe is hijacking America / John Avlon ; [foreword by Tina Brown]

Notes bibliogr.

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