Burning Down the House : Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise o...

by Julian E. Zelizer

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Burning Down the House : Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party, Hardcover by Zelizer, Julian E., ISBN 1594206651, ISBN-13 9781594206658, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "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, alogical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years." In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path towards an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down the 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 newly introduced to fight corruption

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2020
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781594206658
• Condition: Good

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