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How The Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America
Beast Books
March 2010
On Sale: February 23, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0984295119
EAN: 9780984295111
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Non-Fiction Political
A bad craziness is snaking through America in the first
years of the Obama administration: THE WINGNUTS ARE ON THE
ATTACK!
What’s a wingnut?
A wingnut is
someone on the far-right or far-left wing of the political
spectrum – professional partisans, unhinged activists, and
paranoid conspiracy theorists. Barack Obama campaigned as
an antidote to the politics of polarization, promising to
transcend the old divides of left and right, black and
white, red states and blue. But in the first year of his
presidency, he is presiding over an eruption of hate and
hyper-partisanship that threatens to mock the promise upon
which he was elected.
Wingnuts is a reported
exploration of the outer reaches of American politics, told
from the perspectives of a radical centrist who believes
that the far right and the far left are equally insane. On
the way, we’ll meet the “Queen of the Birther,” Orly Taitz,
and the Orange County pastor who is openly praying for
Obama’s death. We’ll get a look into the life of Obama
senate opponent Alan Keyes and the draft-Palin movement, as
well as the liberal anti-war Obama protestor Cindy Sheehan
and her allies in Code Pink. Wingnuts will look at
people trying to bridge the political divide, like the
Afghan war vet who founded Republicans for Obama.
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