Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America

A surprising and revealing look inside the Tea Party movement-where it came from, what it stands for, and what it means for the future of American politics.

They burst on the scene at the height of the Great Recession-angry voters gathering by the thousands to rail against bailouts and big government. Evoking the Founding Fathers, they called themselves the Tea Party. Within the year, they had changed the terms of debate in Washington, emboldening Republicans and confounding a new administra...