@book {9874,
	title = {The Whites of Their Eyes:  The Tea Party{\textquoteright}s Revolution and the Battle over American History},
	year = {2010},
	note = {New York Times Book Review Editors{\textquoteright} Choice.
{\textquotedblleft}Jill Lepore is a national treasure.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains 
{\textquotedblleft}The Whites of Their Eyes shows Jill Lepore at her remarkable best{\textemdash}accessible, authoritative, and wise.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine 
{\textquotedblleft}Lepore demolishes the Tea Party{\textquoteright}s founding fable with deep scholarship and devastating wit.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic
{\textquotedblleft}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.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University 
"A lesson in what history actually is."{\textemdash}Eric Foner, author of Reconstruction
{\textquotedblleft}Learned, lively and shrewd.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
{\textquotedblleft}[A] brief but valuable book . . . which combines her own interviews with Tea Partiers . .
. and her deep knowledge of the founders and of their view of the Constitution.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash}New York Times
{\textquotedblleft}Lepore is a better reporter than any historian, and a better historian than any reporter.{\textquotedblright} {\textemdash} Daily Beast
{\textquotedblleft}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.{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash} Philadelphia Inquirer 
{\textquotedblleft}A trenchant, lively and devastating meditation on the uses and abuses of American
history.{\textquotedblright}-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
{\textquotedblleft}A fascinating attempt to raise the level of US public policy debate ... and should be read by anyone interested in serious political debate.{\textquotedblright}-- ForeWord
},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press},
	organization = {Princeton University Press},
	address = {Princeton and Oxford},
	abstract = {	  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{\textquoteright}s founding, including the battle waged by the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and evangelical Christians to "take back America."
},
	author = {J Lepore}
}
