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Burning down the house : Newt Gingrich, the fall of a speaker, and the rise of the new Republican Party by Julian E Zelizer; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party." In Burning Down the House , historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path toward an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was igniting by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright and catapulted himself into the national spotlight. Perhaps more than any other politician, Gingrich introduced the rhetoric and tactics that have shaped Congress and the Republican Party for the last three decades. Elected to Congress in 1978, Gingrich quickly became one of the most powerful figures in America not through innovative ideas or charisma, but through a calculated campaign of attacks against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil. Taking office in the post-Watergate era, he weaponized the good government reforms n

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Author

Julian E Zelizer; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780698402751

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Rating

4.4 / 5 (187 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14