The Whites Of Their Eyes Jill Lepore Summary

Jill Lepore, a David Woods Kemper ‘14 American History professor at Harvard University and staff writer for the New Yorker, gives a critical observation of American History according to the Tea Party Revolution in her book The Whites of Their Eyes. In this book Lepore discusses how this far right group embraces aspects of history that are fables in order to promote their own political agenda. This group’s agenda is anti-intellectual, fundamentalism, and anti-pluralist. With her evidence Lepore discusses how the Tea Party has conflated the past to the present, how the Tea Party has created a false impression of the past, and how the Tea Party has subverted the past in order to promote Christian