POISON TEA

Poison Tea, by Jeff Nesbit

POISON TEA How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Invented the Tea Party and Captured the GOP Jeff Nesbit New York: St. Martin's Press, February 2016				Rating. 5.0 High
ISBN-13 978-1-250-07610-6
ISBN-10 1-250-07610-2	262pp.	HC	$25.99

	Introduction: The Tea Party Movement—Sudden Appearance or Calculated Move?	1
1.	An Unholy Alliance	5
2.	The Playbook	17
3.	A Critical Bridge: Ron Paul and the "Patriot" Movement	23
4.	Smedley Butler, a Fascist Coup, and the American Liberty League	31
5.	What Drives Charles Koch?	35
6.	The Man Behind the Curtain	41
7.	Why David Koch Never Loses	49
8.	Tobacco Documents Trail	53
9.	COFIRE	59
10.	Enough Is Enough	65
11.	Allied Forces	73
12.	CART	79
13.	Get Government off Our Back	93
14.	The Tobacco Strategy	103
15.	A Road Map for Antigovernment Anger	115
16.	Mobilization Universe	121
17.	The Quarterback	131
18.	Seamless Transition	141
19.	Sleight of Hand	149
20.	Five Pillars	153
21.	The Sam Adams Alliance	161
22.	Propaganda "Dressed Up as Journalism"	171
23.	Capturing the States	181
24.	Structure of Social Change	187
25.	A Blueprint Years in the Making	193
26.	Winning	201

	Acknowledgments	211
	Appendix 1: Acronyms	213
	Appendix 2: Koch Industries Connections	215
	Appendix 3: Key Events	217
	Notes	221
	Annotated Bibliography	233
	Index	255

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