Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur Matthew N. Green
Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur Matthew N. Green Newt Gingrich is one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in US politics. Though much has been written about…
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Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur Matthew N. Green
Newt Gingrich is one of the most polarizing and consequential figures in US politics. Though much has been written about Gingrich, accounts of his time in Congress are incomplete and often skewed.In their book Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur, political scientists Matthew N. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1978, he rose from a minority party backbencher to become the first Republican Speaker of the House in forty years.
Green and Crouch argue that Gingrich is best understood as a "party entrepreneur," someone who works primarily to achieve their congressional party's collective goals. Green and Jeffrey Crouch draw from newly uncovered archival material, original interviews, and other data to provide a fresh and insightful look at Gingrich's entire congressional career. From the moment he entered Congress, Gingrich was laser-focused on