<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Lepore</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Whites of Their Eyes:  The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Princeton University Press</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Princeton and Oxford</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;	  Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the meaning of the nation's founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to &quot;take back America.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Jill Lepore is a national treasure.”—Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“The Whites of Their Eyes shows Jill Lepore at her remarkable best—accessible, authoritative, and wise.”—Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Lepore demolishes the Tea Party’s founding fable with deep scholarship and devastating wit.”—Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“The Whites of Their Eyes offers the most compelling look we have so far at who we were and who we have become as a nation.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&quot;A lesson in what history actually is.&quot;—Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Learned, lively and shrewd.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“[A] brief but valuable book . . . which combines her own interviews with Tea Partiers . .&lt;br /&gt;
. and her deep knowledge of the founders and of their view of the Constitution.” —New York Times&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Lepore is a better reporter than any historian, and a better historian than any reporter.” — Daily Beast&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“What Lepore does best is rescue forgotten people and moments from the Revolutionary era and remind us beautifully of the many-layered power of place.”— Philadelphia Inquirer &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“A trenchant, lively and devastating meditation on the uses and abuses of American&lt;br /&gt;
history.”-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“A fascinating attempt to raise the level of US public policy debate ... and should be read by anyone interested in serious political debate.”-- ForeWord&lt;/p&gt;
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