Not an endorsement; for informational purposes only.
This list was obtained on the Compuserve "Townhall" Forum in late January 1995:
Advise and Consent, by Allen Drury
America, America, by Elia Kazan
Building a Community of Citizens: Civil Society in the 21st Century, Don E.
Eberly, editor
Chimpanzee Politics, by Franz De Waal
Concepts of Quality, by Edwards Demming
Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave, by Alvin and
Heidi Toffler
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville
Future Shock, by Alvin and Heidi Toffler
Keeping America Competitive, by Edward E. Potter and Judith A. Youngman
Leadership and the Computer: Top Executives Reveal How They Personally Use
Computers to Communicate, Coach, Convince, and Compete
My Years at General Motors, by Alfred Sloan
Plunkitt of Tamany Hall, by William Riordan
Take Back Your Government: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen Who
Wants Democracy to Work, by Robert Heinlein
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal
Change, by Stephen Covey
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
The Effective Executive, by Peter Drucker.
The Federalist, by Anonymous
(Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay)
The Fourth Instinct, by Arianna Huffington.
The Last Hurrah, by Edwin O'Connor.
The Origins of the American Revolution and The Radicalism of the American
Revolution, by Gordon Wood.
The Other Path, by Hernando DeSoto
The Tragedy of American Compassion, by Marvin Olasky.
The Two Cultures, by C.P Snow
On The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith.
Washington: The Indispensable Man, by James T. Flexner.
Working Without a Net: How to Survive and Thrive in Today's High-Risk
Business World, by Morris Shectman.
From www.berkeleyic.com/gop/newt_reading.html: (dead link)
Recommended by Newt in his 11/11/94 Speech to Washington Research Group
and his speech upon being elected Speaker Of The House.
- Newt's reading list compiled from his speeches. -
"Creating a New Civilization" - futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler
"The Effective Executive" - Peter Drucker
"Leadership and the Computer" - Mary Boone
"Working Without a Net" - Arleaha and Merrie Shechtman (or is it Morris Shectman?)
"Declaration of Independence" - Thomas Jefferson, Founders
"The Federalist Papers"
- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
"Democracy in America" - Alexis de Tocqueville
"Washington: The Indispensable Man," - James T. Flexner
"Concepts Of Quality" - Demming
"Future Shock" and "The Third Wave." - Alvin and Heidi Toffler
"The American Constitution" - Founders
"Report on Tofflers' Work" - Progress and Freedom Foundation's
Quote of Newt
recommending the Founders in general:
"In the other direction I suggest to them, immerse yourself in the Founding Fathers. These people thought a long time about the nature of being human, about the problems of power, about how to organize a free society so it could sustain freedom. And if you can combine the two, you can begin to create an opportunity for every American to participate in ways that will prove to be quite remarkable."
-- Newt Gingrich
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"I am a history teacher by background, and I would assert and defend on any campus in this country that it is impossible to maintain civilization with twelve-year-olds having babies, with fifteen-year-olds killing each other, with seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and with eighteen-year-olds ending up with diplomas they can't even read. And that what is at issue is literally not Republican or Democrat or Liberal or Conservative, but the question of whether or not our civilization will survive."
-- NEWTON L. GINGRICH Speaker-Elect of the U.S. House of Representatives
11/11/94 Speech to Washington Research Group
Gingrich wrote a book: To Renew America. His $4 million prepublication advance from the Murdoch corporate entity caused a bit of comment, so much so that it was decided to change this to a token $1 advance. I read that the book has made $1 million.
( I am told Gore's Earth in the Balance also made about one million.)
(My impression is that this "one million" figure is gross sales, to be divided among resellers, distributors, publisher, and author. But I don't really know.)