'Winning the Future': Which Side Are You On?
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By JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL
Published: February 6, 2005
SOME folks mellow with age, others don't. Newt Gingrich falls in the
latter category. And in case you weren't clear on that, he's written a
new political manifesto to drive the point home. In ''Winning the
Future: A 21st Century Contract With America,'' you'll find the
Gingrich of a decade ago, with a scope as broad as his aggression runs
deep, and rhetoric with the force of a sock in the face. He opens with
a test, to find out where you stand ''on the great and growing gap
between traditional American values and the secular liberalism of the
Left'' (the capital L is his, throughout). If you pass, you may read
on, and learn to ''protect and defend America's traditions and
values.'' If you don't . . . well, he doesn't quite say what happens if
you don't. Presumably you retreat to some redoubt deep in blue America
and await your destruction. And so it goes, pretty much like that, for
the next 200-odd pages.
WINNING THE FUTURE
A 21st Century Contract With America.
By Newt Gingrich.
243 pp. Regnery Publishing. $27.95.
Newt Gingrich
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