Dave Weigel reads Newt’s entire Amazonian oeuvre:
There are plenty of thriller reviews in the Gingrich archives, and a few big pop science books about string theory and the Internet. These reviews are more revealing than the policy wonk stuff, which isn’t surprising. We’re talking about the politician who, in To Renew America, mentioned the influence of Toynbee’s A Study of History in the same paragraph as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels. Thrills and speculative fiction can, to use a favorite Gingrich phrase, “stretch the mind.” It might not make sense when you hear Gingrich warning of the danger of electro-magnetic pulse attacks or making analogies between World War II and multiple current conflicts. It makes more sense when you see what fiction he reads.
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