To renew America

by Newt Gingrich

Many people in government and the media tried to stop the publication of this book so that you could not read it. But now you can. On November 9, 1994, for the first time in forty years, the Republican Party attained a majority in the House of Representatives. Newt Gingrich, a former history professor from Georgia, became the Speaker. Newt Gingrich is an optimist. During the 1994 campaign, he and his Republican colleagues promised bold changes, and they delivered. Within their first hundred days of leadership, they steered a course of reform unprecedented in this century. Their chosen instrument of change would be the now-legendary Contract with America. Four months later, nine of the ten Contract items had passed the House, and Newt Gingrich emerged as the most dynamic political leader of his generation. To Renew America is his next step. In it, Newt Gingrich reveals not only the formative events of his own political development, but the key elements of his epochal vision of our natio