Review of Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party

Since the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama, the US' first black president, a movement known as the Tea Party has emerged within the Republican Party. Here, Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine Trost of the Center for Right-Wing Studies at the University of California, Berkeley present 24 articles - by scholars as well as three well-chosen non-academic experts on the US Right - that analyse it as a social movement.