Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto

by Dick Armey, Matt Kibbe

Overview

Former Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and leading organizer of the Tea Party movement, Dick Armey offers a Tea Party Manifesto: Give Us Liberty. Written with Matt Kibbee, President and CEO of FreedomWorks, Give Us Liberty defines the issues and agenda of the wildfire grassroots movement that is electrifying the nation, as it calls on fiscal conservatives to take back America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062023643
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/17/2010
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Dick Armey served in the House of Representatives for eighteen years, becoming Majority Leader in 1994. That year he was the main author of the Contract with America, which helped Republicans take control of the House for the first time in forty years. Today, he serves as chairman of FreedomWorks and leads the same political revolution at the grassroots level.

Matt Kibbe is the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, a national grassroots organization that serves citizens in their fight for more individual freedom and less government control. An economist by training, Kibbe is a well-respected policy expert, bestselling author, and a regular guest on CNN, Fox News, The Blaze TV, and MSNBC. He also serves as Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Austrian Economic Center in Vienna, Austria. Kibbe is author of the national bestseller Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (2012) and coauthor of Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (2010). Terry, his awesome wife of twenty-seven years, takes no responsibility for his many mistakes or frequent embarrassments.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Revolution and Retreat 1

1 The Silent Majority Speaks 13

2 The American Revolutionary Model 29

3 Bailout 49

4 What We Stand for 87

5 The Status Quo Lashes Out at the Tea Party 100

6 Achieving Critical Mass 132

7 Why We Must Take Over the Republican Party 162

8 The New Center of American Politics 196

9 We are a Movement of Ideas, Not Leaders 225

Epilogue: Changing the Culture in Tacoma, Washington 238

Appendix: FreedomWorks Grassroots Activism Toolkit 245

Acknowledgments 333

Notes 335

What People are Saying About This

Glenn Beck

“My friends Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe uniquely understand what this movement is really all about, where it’s going, and why it’s happening now. Give Us Liberty is a detailed recounting of both the philosophical evolution and historical development of the Tea Party. . . . If you find inspiration in these pages, know this: You must get involved. The incredible burden of responsibility put upon future generations by our Founding Fathers ultimately rests on your shoulders.”

Editorial Reviews

My friends Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe uniquely understand what this movement is really all about, where it’s going, and why it’s happening now. Give Us Liberty is a detailed recounting of both the philosophical evolution and historical development of the Tea Party. . . . If you find inspiration in these pages, know this: You must get involved. The incredible burden of responsibility put upon future generations by our Founding Fathers ultimately rests on your shoulders.” — Glenn Beck

From the Publisher

My friends Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe uniquely understand what this movement is really all about, where it’s going, and why it’s happening now. Give Us Liberty is a detailed recounting of both the philosophical evolution and historical development of the Tea Party. . . . If you find inspiration in these pages, know this: You must get involved. The incredible burden of responsibility put upon future generations by our Founding Fathers ultimately rests on your shoulders.

Glenn Beck