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Title: Lessons Learned the Hard Way : A Personal Report by Newt Gingrich ISBN: 0-06-019106-6 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.18 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Candid apologies get depressing, glimmer of hope at end.
Comment: I've been a fan of Newt Gingrich ever since I read "Window of Opportunity" back in 1984 and I used to watch his special order speeches on the House floor on C-SPAN long after the rest of the country had gone to bed. I thought I would enjoy hearing from my role model, in his own words, why the 104th and 105th Congress stalled, shot itself in the foot repeatedly, and allowed our character-challenged president take credit for things he didn't do.
I was wrong.
Although I have a better understanding now of the events surrounding Congress over the last several years, I found the litany of apoligies and excuses depressing. I miss the visionary Newt, and the last chapter, which describes Newt's "4 goals for our generation" felt like an afterthought.
All in all, I'm glad Newt wrote this book, and it should be required reading for all Republicans, but don't expect to put the book down feeling inspired 'cause it isn't going to happen. Newt: catharsis is good for the soul, but please start looking forward instead of backward.
Rating: 2
Summary: Most of his lessons are apparently learned the easy way...
Comment: For insight into Gingrich, one should skip this book and instead read his extensive set of Amazon reviews. Yes -- Newt Gingrich writes lots of reviews on Amazon! And not a single pan! Everything gets four stars or more, suggesting that Newt may be burdened by a seriously unsceptical mind.
And it's not all Toffler and Deming. He reads novels, history, and science books, and seems to have a military fetish. The reviews are generally well-written and useful, but Gingrich may overestimate the importance of books. On Kissinger's "Does America Need a Foreign Policy?" he writes, "This is a book the Bush Administration can use for sophisticated planning." I can just see Dubya, Cheney and Condy huddled over a dog-eared copy of Kissinger's book, marking up their map of geopolitical chessboard.
Rating: 2
Summary: Newt?
Comment: Newt who? Is he still around? Put a fork in him...he's done.
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Title: Contract with America by Republican National Committee ISBN: 0812925866 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 26 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: To Renew America by Newt Gingrich ISBN: 006017336X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: See, I Told You So by Rush H., III Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Judith Regan ISBN: 067187120X Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Way Things Ought to Be by Rush H., III Limbaugh, Judith Regan ISBN: 067175145X Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House by Gary Aldrich, Michael Reagan ISBN: 0895264064 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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