Newt Gingrich: Speaker to America

by Judith Warner, Max Berley

Written after Gingrich's acension as Speaker of the House. Where he came from, how we grew up, personal life & influences, and how his political philosophy was formulated and developed over the course of his career. He changed the strategy of the Republican House minority and charted it's course to become the majority party long before it occurred after the elections of 1994. He changed long-term planning and strategy, and his constant drive to achieve his political and societal goals for America.Gingrich was the ultimate Machiavelian politician. The ends justified the means. He threw bombs, toppled Jim Wright and uncovered some of the pompous transgressions of House members. Newt didn't live in a glass however. GOPAC was another siginificant achievement of his.

Genres: Politics

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

About the author

Judith Warner is the author, most recently, of And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School, which was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice when it was published in early May. She is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety and Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story, as well as the multiple award-winning We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication. A senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, she has been a frequent contributor to the New York Times, where she wrote the popular Domestic Disturbances column, as well as numerous other publications.