Outsourced to Kevin Levin: >How Newt's New Novel Plays Politics With the Past: Eager to court black voters while retaining southern conservatives, Gingrich writes a notorious massacre out of his book >Newt Gingrich's recent rise in Republican primary polls has occurred in tandem with the release of his historical novel set in the Civil War, which positions him as a champion of the African-American community and at the same time attempts to placate his conservative southern base, whose agenda is interwoven with a traditional narrative of the Civil War that avoids the tough questions surrounding slavery and race.
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When talking about the rise of Newt Gingrich in current Republican politics, one subject that does not get brought up as much as it used to is his three marriages and his infidelity to his first two wives. Being one of the more fami... Read Post
Newt Gingrich’s recent rise in Republican primary polls has occurred in tandem with the release of his historical novel set in the Civil War. The result? Gingrich writes a notorious massacre out of his book, The Battle of the Crater... Read Post
Conservative intellectuals are still trying to kill Newt Gingrich's campaign. Almost all of them from George Will to Ann Coulter has unloaded on Gingrich in the recent past. Apparently conservatives believe they now have a "not-Ging... Read Post