holomew151 's review for:

Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party by Julian E. Zelizer

3.0

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As part of my American Politics course in university, I have wanted to learn more about the Republican Party, and this book goes a long way to explaining why it is the partisan beast it is today. Here, we see Newt's rise to Republican stardom and how he created a tornado of allegations whilst ignoring the own claims made against his own party.


My only real complaint about it is that it puts too much detail on the allegations against Wright at the expense of the path that the Republicans took after Newt's rise, which only gets a page or so.