Table of Contents

Contents Prologue Crying Time One General Gingrich Two Let the Lobby Boys In Three A Moderate Turns Right Four John Kasich's Dream Machine Five Revenge of the Business Class Six Dick Armey's Big Boot Seven "Thank You, God!" Eight Hawk versus Hawk Nine The Hammer Ten War of Words Eleven "Tell Newt to Shut Up!" Twelve "You're Just Being the Beaver!" Epilogue Note on Sources Acknowledgments Index

About the Author

Born in Detroit, David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story; First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton; Rome 1960: The Olympics that Stirred the World; Barack Obama: The Story; Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero; They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967; and When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, which was hailed by Sports Illustrated as "maybe the best sports biography ever published." He lives in Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews

Stephen E. Ambrose bestselling author of D-Day and Undaunted Courage Politicians put on the best show in town -- and here they are with all their hypocrisy and idealism, self-service and public service, stupidity and sense, high drama and low skulduggery. It makes for wonderful reading. David Broder This is a wonderful look inside the revolution. It is a vivid portrait of the ups and downs, ins and outs, of Newt Gingrich and the gang.