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When he's not getting rich, he's becoming ever more famous. There's Gingrich the Small-Screen Star, who appeared regularly on National Empowerment Television; and Gingrich the after-dinner toastmaster, who can command $50,000 a plate at a fund raiser; as well as Gingrich the erstwhile college professor. If he doesn't get a grip, we may soon have Newt the Fragrance as well as coverage of Congress on a pay-per-view basis...
Like Dr. Johnson's dog walking on its hind legs, it's not that Gingrich does all these things well; it's that he does them at all. Publisher Baen doesn't pretend that Gingrich wrote the novel his name is on, in the sense we understand writing, but he did attend three meetings. "Newt provided the plot and some of the characters, and his co-author wrote a first draft, and then they flopped disks back and forth," says Baen. That may be how the "pouting sex kitten," who twines her fingers in the chest hairs of the main...
...according to advance word, 1945 is a work of art compared with To Renew America, which was written in about two weeks. During the congressional Easter recess, ghostwriter Bill Tucker went to Gingrich's home in Marietta, Georgia, and extracted 70,000 words from the Speaker. "He's been saying the same thing since he was 15," says Tucker. "I just had to get him to make it shorter." The book repackages the sayings of Speaker Newt, lectures from his college course and riffs on the Contract with America...
...public may be confused when Gingrich shows up at a bookstore near them. Is he a salesman moving product or Speaker of the House? Is he running for President or just using the will-he-or-won't-he-run titillation to sell books? Which is the real Newt? By day he's preaching family values; by night, at his laptop, he's mocking them...
...Gingrich even used his historic joint appearance with Clinton in New Hampshire to get in a plug for his book. The President played along, joking that Senator Dole, the arbiter of morals, "hasn't given me permission to read that book yet." Now Gingrich is planning to stage a mock endorsement of it by Dole. After the New Hampshire event, Gingrich refused to close the door on his presidential aspirations. "I have to go through a Kabuki dance of personal ambition to get covered," said the most overexposed Speaker of all time, adding that he doesn't have to decide...