Poison tea : how big oil and big tobacco invented the tea party and captured the GOP /
Jeff Nesbit.
- First edition.
- viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Introduction: The Tea Party movement: sudden apperance or calculated move? -- An unholy alliance -- The playbook -- A critical bridge: Ron Paul and the "Patriot" movement -- Smedley Butler, a fascist coup, and the American Liberty League -- What drives Charles Koch? -- The man behind the curtain -- Why David Koch never loses -- Tobacco documents trail -- COFIRE -- Enough is enough -- Allied forces -- CART -- Get government off our back -- The tobacco strategy -- A road map for antigovernment anger -- Mobilization universe -- The quarterback -- Seamless transition -- Sleight of hand -- Five pillars -- The Sam Adams Alliance -- Propaganda "dressed up as journalism" -- Capturing the states -- Structure of social change -- A blueprint years in the making -- Winning.
"An incredible expose of the Koch brothers and the tobacco industry's twenty-year plot to manufacture a phony grassroots uprising, this is the true story of the Tea Party"--
9781250076106 (hardback) 1250076102 (hbk)
Koch, David H., 1940- Koch, Charles G. 1935-
Tea Party (Movimiento social)
Tea Party movement. Tobacco industry--United States. Industria tabacalera--Estados Unidos
United States--Politics and government. Estados Unidos--Política y gobierno