Speaker Newt Gingrich and his troops promised a revolution when they seized power in January 1995. The year that followed was one of the most fascinating and tumultuous in modern American history. After stunning early success with the Contract with America, the Republicans began to lose momentum; by year's end Gingrich was isolated and uncertain, and his closest allies were telling him to shut up. Here is an unprecedented, fly-on-the-wall look at the successes, sellouts, and perhaps fatal mistakes of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution. Based on the award-winning Washington Post series that documented the Republicans' day-to-day attempts to revolutionize the American government, "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" gets to the heart of the political process.
Contents
Prologue Crying Time
One General Gingrich
Two Let the Lobby Boys In
Three A Moderate Turns Right
Four John Kasich's Dream Machine
Five Revenge of the Business Class
Six Dick Armey's Big Boot
Seven "Thank You, God!"
Eight Hawk versus Hawk
Nine The Hammer
Ten War of Words
Eleven "Tell Newt to Shut Up!"
Twelve "You're Just Being the Beaver!"
Epilogue
Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
Speaker Newt Gingrich and his troops promised a revolution when they seized power in January 1995. The year that followed was one of the most fascinating and tumultuous in modern American history. After stunning early success with the Contract with America, the Republicans began to lose momentum; by year's end Gingrich was isolated and uncertain, and his closest allies were telling him to shut up. Here is an unprecedented, fly-on-the-wall look at the successes, sellouts, and perhaps fatal mistakes of Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution. Based on the award-winning Washington Post series that documented the Republicans' day-to-day attempts to revolutionize the American government, "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" gets to the heart of the political process.
Contents
Prologue Crying Time
One General Gingrich
Two Let the Lobby Boys In
Three A Moderate Turns Right
Four John Kasich's Dream Machine
Five Revenge of the Business Class
Six Dick Armey's Big Boot
Seven "Thank You, God!"
Eight Hawk versus Hawk
Nine The Hammer
Ten War of Words
Eleven "Tell Newt to Shut Up!"
Twelve "You're Just Being the Beaver!"
Epilogue
Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents Prologue Crying Time One General Gingrich Two Let the Lobby Boys In Three A Moderate Turns Right Four John Kasich's Dream Machine Five Revenge of the Business Class Six Dick Armey's Big Boot Seven "Thank You, God!" Eight Hawk versus Hawk Nine The Hammer Ten War of Words Eleven "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" Twelve "You're Just Being the Beaver!" Epilogue Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index
Born in Detroit, David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story; First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton; Rome 1960: The Olympics that Stirred the World; Barack Obama: The Story; Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero; They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967; and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, which was hailed by Sports Illustrated as "maybe the best sports biography ever published." He lives in Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin.
Stephen E. Ambrose bestselling author of D-Day and Undaunted Courage Politicians put on the best show in town -- and here they are with all their hypocrisy and idealism, self-service and public service, stupidity and sense, high drama and low skulduggery. It makes for wonderful reading. David Broder This is a wonderful look inside the revolution. It is a vivid portrait of the ups and downs, ins and outs, of Newt Gingrich and the gang.
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