Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005
He's Back!
By Elizabeth Drew
Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
by Newt Gingrich
Regnery, 243 pp., $27.95
The Enduring Revolution: How the Contract with America Continues to Shape the Nation
by Major Garrett
Crown Forum, 325 pp., $25.95
The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later: Smaller Government or Business as Usual?
edited by Chris Edwards and John Samples
Cato Institute, 240 pp., $19.95; $13.95 (paper)
In a city where survival is the supreme value, few prominent politicians who have failed have been as resilient as Newt Gingrich. Having led the Republicans to power in the House in 1994 he had to resign as Speaker, and left Congress, after the 1998 elections; his overzealousness in pursuing the impeachment of Bill Clinton was seen as having cost the Republicans five seats. By that time, the formerly much-feared Speaker of the House was widely seen as a joke.
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