my first question actually is for jill lepore. tell us a little bit about what you see as some of the historical debates that are embodied within the tea party movement and sort of this diesel year to identify with the american revolution and founding narrative of american history in the present day. >> thank you for inviting me. it's an honor to be here the press club and with a distinguished panel. i'm eager to participate in this evening's discussion. the tea party has its name and inspiration from the american revolution as indeed many political movement since the revolution itself, so claiming the revolution as the ideological inheritance of political movement is part of the american political tradition if you think about battles between jacksonian said and whigs, the union and consider a seat, the integrationist from each of these moments of american history americans have looked at a revolution as an inspiration from martin luther king from a birmingham jail said the boston tea party was the first four of non-violent protes

. >> jill lepore, have we heard this before? >> that this movement -- this particular speech before? >> in terms of a political movement that hopes to make a permanent revision of the system? >> now, and i think i would be healthy for democracy. i mean, we live in a society in which we are undergoing great change. one of the things that obviously is a touchstone for many people in the movement and everything about sarah palin's line, we will keep our constitution, guns and religion and you can keep the change. i think a lot of the rhetoric of the movement, at least from her point of view -- i didn't weigh in on who my top three, i have no idea. bobby franklin wondering whether hamilton citizenship is a problem. we still haven't talked about che is a rebellion. but i guess the people i spoke to in boston were uniformly opposed to palin, had very anti-palin views, matched only by their yields to test station of mitt romney. which is quite interesting as the person who sent my whole life in massachusetts. so i guess a lot of the rh