Tea Party Movement and the Mythologization of the Founding Fathers

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for English and American Studies), course: Remembering the Revolution, language: English, abstract: To assess the Tea Party Movement's appropriation of the historically incorrect myth of the Founding Fathers, it is of importance to question why Palin and Cruz mythologize these h...