Title

To renew America

Description

Responding to the concerns Americans feel for their safety, their value systems, and their children's future, Newt Gingrich calls for a return to mainstream American civilization and the basic principles upon which our country was founded. Citing the Six Challenges that we must face as a nation, he reveals commonsense solutions to the issues we care about most, such as welfare, balancing the federal budget, shifting power from the bureaucracy to the citizenry, and confirming America's leadership in the Information Age. With characteristic bluntness, Newt Gingrich describes his political allies and adversaries as he shares personal recollections of his historic first hundred days as Speaker. He also delivers practical approaches to issues as diverse as bilingualism, illegal immigration, multiculturalism, and health care.For months, worldwide media attention has swirled around Speaker Gingrich as he has reawakened American political debate. To Renew America is, finally, the opportunity to encounter the man himself and his dramatic vision of our nation's future.

Identifier

537327

006017336X

Creator

Gingrich, Newt

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1995

Program air date: July 23, 1995

Publisher

HarperCollins

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: One reason to teach and write Edward Demming. What kind of a grader were you when you taught. "Credit and Hell" for daughters. FDR p. 102. Centralized Buracracy. Good listener. France-Degualle. Arnold Toyenbee. Isaac Asimov. Why is reading so important v. TV. Douglassville, Ga.--Welfare state has to go p. 151-Cynical kid. Marianne-Thyroid problem-tests p. 174. A lot of emphasis on your Georgia District. Shaw Industries-Carpet. Linda Bavaro-Global Green. Rheinhardt College. Town meeting. Cobb County Commission-Bill Byne-unfunded mandates. Why would the elite media purposely try to distort news p. 211. Bob Dole (What did you learn when you campaigned together in 94).When did you take 2 years to review American History? [Verso] What power does the Speaker have that you didn't realize. Lamb has a list of family/friends and number of times mentioned: Marianne, 9; Clinton, 8; Armey, 7; Delay, 6; Kemp, 5; Dole, 5; Riordan, 5; Walker, 5; Evlyn, 4. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Six major changes. Gingrich's background and influences, exposure to Europe. At 14 dedicated to cause of freedom/country. Influence of reading history/science fiction. 5 principles which form the heart of civilization. Lamb underlines references to Everett Carll Ladd and histories by Gordon Wood, Henry Cabot Lodge, Ben Franklin, DeTocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, FDR. Deming's 4 basic points. English as official language--health care, drugs. Notes: "Inflation in France," "Good leaders gamble everything," "damage 42 years later," "High School," "Asimov Science Fiction," "Henry Cabot Lodge's Geo. Wash." "Elite American History," "God, Ben Franklin," "FDR greatest president of the 20th century," "men v. women," "classic American," "Martin Luther King, Jr.," "college dropouts," "Roger Milliken," "Total quality management," "60 hour course with Deming," "1903 auto, movies, airplane," "credit-card hell," "Bill Buckley, Hayek, Friedman," "strongly favor Constitution," "press corps 'mistake'," "growth in eyes of Wash. media," "Committee on the Family," "53 hour savings," "2nd Wave v. 3rd Wave," "learner focused system," "unemployment insurance, disability programs." "News media asleep," "News media coverage of violence: Biased." on the verso of p. 248, Lamb lists 25 authors/historic figures among which 16 were either authors of or the subjects for Booknotes books: Milton Friedman, John K. Galbraith, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, Andrew Carnegie, Alex DeTocqueville, Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, Martin L. King, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, TR, George Marshall, F. Von Hayek, George Washington which are cited in the book.

Subject

"Information society--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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