Thursday 13 May 2010
by: Greg Grandin | TomDispatch.com
Americans, it's been said, learn geography when they go to war. Now, it seems, many get their history when they go to a Tea
Party rally or tune in to Glenn Beck.
History is a "battlefield of ideas," as Beck recently put it, while looking professorial in front of a blackboard filled with
his trademark circled names connected by multidirectional arrows, his
hands covered with chalk dust. In this struggle, movement historians
like Beck go all in, advancing a comprehensive interpretation of
American history meant to provide analytical clarity to believers and
potential converts alike. As paranoid as it may be, this history is
neither radical nor revisionist, since the Tea Party activists and their
fellow travelers pluck at some of the major chords of American
nationalism.
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