Research Catalog

Title

"Tell Newt to shut up!" : prizewinning Washington Post journalists reveal how reality gagged the Gingrich revolution / David Maraniss and Michael Weisskopf.

Author

Maraniss, David

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Weisskopf, Michael.

Description

218 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Gingrich, Newt
• United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001

Note

• "A Touchstone book."
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: Crying Time 1 -- 1 General Gingrich 4 -- 2 Let the Lobby Boys In 11 -- 3 A Moderate Turns Right 22 -- 4 John Kasich's Dream Machine 36 -- 5 Revenge of the Business Class 53 -- 6 Dick Armey's Big Boot 72 -- 7 "Thank You, God!" 84 -- 8 Hawk versus Hawk 99 -- 9 The Hammer 110 -- 10 War of Words 128 -- 11 "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" 146 -- 12 "You're Just Being the Beaver!" 178.

ISBN

0684832933 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96017354^

OCLC

34658675

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library