YodaBeesh Book Review: Winning the Future... by Newt Gingrich
Your YodaBeesh belongs to a book club. Yes. Its true.
This past month's selection was Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract with America by Newt Gingrich.
Jist of the book: Newt comes up with a New Contract for America...blahblahblah.
My Take: It sucked. Newt makes an attempt at coming off as a legitimate academician and fails spectacularly. His assumptions are weakly supported (if at all), and the overall writing style is akin to hot-winded rhetoric and right-wing propaganda. He takes as many swipes as possible at the "secular left". This was written to cater to the fears of red state inhabitants, and reinforces those fears through empty promises in his intangible contract. His book poses no new solutions; the solutions that he does provide are dated and were posited in the 1990s. The book is filled with inconsistencies and hypocrisy... I'd elaborate further, but you can find them as easily as finding out "Where's Waldo?"
If you want to make Newt Gingrich happy, then replace the existing system of government with a Fundementalist Christian State.
Final Assessment: Makes a good paperweight, but remove the book sleeve first unless you're a glutton for odd stares and alienation.
This past month's selection was Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract with America by Newt Gingrich.
Jist of the book: Newt comes up with a New Contract for America...blahblahblah.
My Take: It sucked. Newt makes an attempt at coming off as a legitimate academician and fails spectacularly. His assumptions are weakly supported (if at all), and the overall writing style is akin to hot-winded rhetoric and right-wing propaganda. He takes as many swipes as possible at the "secular left". This was written to cater to the fears of red state inhabitants, and reinforces those fears through empty promises in his intangible contract. His book poses no new solutions; the solutions that he does provide are dated and were posited in the 1990s. The book is filled with inconsistencies and hypocrisy... I'd elaborate further, but you can find them as easily as finding out "Where's Waldo?"
If you want to make Newt Gingrich happy, then replace the existing system of government with a Fundementalist Christian State.
Final Assessment: Makes a good paperweight, but remove the book sleeve first unless you're a glutton for odd stares and alienation.
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