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  title info:
    title: Burning down the house
    sub title: Newt Gingrich, the fall of a speaker, and the rise of the new Republican Party
  name:
    name part: Zelizer, Julian E.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: The story of how Newt Gingrich and his allies tainted American politics, launching an enduring era of brutal partisan warfare When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, President Obama observed that Trump "is not an outlier, he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years." In Burning Down the House, historian Julian Zelizer pinpoints the moment when our country was set on a path towards an era of bitterly partisan and ruthless politics, an era that was ignited by Newt Gingrich and his allies. In 1989, Gingrich brought down the Democratic Speaker of the House Jim Wright and catapulted himself into the national spotlight. Perhaps more than any other politician, Gingrich introduced the rhetoric and tactics that have shaped Congress and the Republican Party for the last three decades. Elected to Congress in 1978, Gingrich quickly became one of the most powerful figures in America not through innovative ideas or charisma, but through a calculated campaign of attacks against political opponents, casting himself as a savior in a fight of good versus evil. Taking office in the post-Watergate era, he weaponized the good government reforms newly introduced to fight corruption, wielding the rules in ways that shocked the legislators who had created them. His crusade against Democrats culminated in the plot to destroy the political career of Speaker Wright. While some of Gingrich's fellow Republicans were disturbed by the viciousness of his attacks, his party enjoyed his successes so much that they did little collectively to stand in his way. Democrats, for their part, were alarmed, but did not want to sink to his level and took no effective actions to stop him. It didn't seem to matter that Gingrich's moral conservatism was hypocritical or that his methods were brazen, his accusations of corruption permanently tarnished his opponents. This brand of warfare worked, not as a strategy for…
  table of contents: Prologue: Speak like Newt -- The making of a renegade Republican -- A political wrecking ball -- The perfect foil -- Legitimating Gingrich -- Missing the tempest -- Scandal frenzy -- Gingrich on top -- Mindless cannibalism.
  note: Julian E. Zelizer.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gingrich, Newt
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Congress.
      name part: House
    topic: Speakers
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Communication in politics
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1989-
  classification: E840.8.G5 Z45 2020
  classification: 328.73/092
  identifier: 9781594206658
  identifier: 1594206651
  identifier: 9780698402751
  identifier: 2019044440
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200103
    record change date: 20201021155812.0
    record identifier: in00004264790