Steep : the precipitous rise of the Tea Party / edited by Lawrence Rosenthal, Christine Trost.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the rise of the Tea Party -- The tea parties in historical perspective: a conservative response to a crisis of political economy / Charles Postel -- Reframing populist resentments in the Tea Party movement / Chip Berlet -- View from the top: a report on six national Tea Party organizations / Devin Burghart -- Astroturf versus grass roots: scenes from early Tea Party mobilization / Clarence Y.H. Lo -- The Tea Party: a white citizenship movement? / Lisa Disch -- The past and future of race in the Tea Party movement / Joseph Lowndes -- Of mama grizzlies and politics: women and the Tea Party / Melissa Deckman -- Grand old Tea Party: partisan polarization and the rise of the Tea Party movement / Alan I. Abramowitz -- The future of the Tea Party: scoring an invitation to the Republican Party / Martin Cohen -- The Tea Party and religious right movements / Peter Montgomery.