To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine [Hardcover]

Newt Gingrich (Author)

Book Description

Release date: May 17, 2010

In his blockbuster new book, To Save America, former Speaker of the House and bestselling author Newt Gingrich issues a dire warning for America. By spending more than we can afford, sacrificing conservative values for the sake of easy answers, and electing the most liberal president ever, America is at risk for its very survival. Thanks to President Obama and his cohorts in Congress, we have become a country defined by massive government takeovers, rising debt, and failing national security systems. “This is not the nation our Founding Fathers envisioned,” Gingrich says, “America needs saving, and it’s up to us to do it.” In To Save America, Gingrich lays out a bold plan to put the United States back on track. Gingrich shows how Republicans can make a comeback in the 2010 mid-term elections, win the 2012 presidential election, and reveals how readers can help restore our nation to its fundamental values. Gingrich also argues that the big-spending, big-government programs, and bureaucracies of the secular socialist Left are the greatest threat to our nation’s survival since the Civil War. “Our federal government is broken,” Gingrich states, “we must ‘replace, not reform’ our leaders and our policies, or America will no longer be the ‘shining city upon a hill.’” Fresh, inspiring, and resolute, To Save America is Gingrich’s most powerful book yet.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

America on the Brink

The Obama administration is conspiring to transform America. They want to remake our America—of free enterprise, faith, and personal freedom—into their America—of endless bureaucracy, secularism, and state control—despite overwhelming opposition from the American people.How is this possible? How has the Obama team succeeded in adopting widely despised policies like the massive stimulus bill and the healthcare takeover? How could such a radical president and his congressional leaders get elected and then take a center-right country in a socialist direction bitterly opposed by most Americans? Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has the answer: the Left have built a secular-socialist machine out of corruption, lust for power, and sheer ruthlessness, and are using it to steamroll over the will of the people. In this book, Gingrich reveals:

* How the secular-socialist machine gained power through deception and outright lies
* How the machine shuts the American people out of the legislative process
* Why some of our most powerful leaders seek to banish religion from public life
* How the machine uses taxpayer money to pay off its supporters and punish its opponents
* How we can replace, not reform, Obama’s socialist programs

Exposing the mortal threat now facing America, To Save America offers concrete strategies for dismantling the machine and replacing it with policies and institutions that work. But we must act fast, Gingrich warns, or our children will inherit a secular, socialist America transformed beyond recognition.

From the Back Cover

“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”
—Ronald Reagan

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”
—George Washington

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
—Samuel Adams

“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”
—Daniel Webster

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 356 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition (May 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596985968
• ISBN-13: 978-1596985964
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (115 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #287,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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88 of 134 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book for anyone who wants to save our country May 17, 2010

By Robert Gross

Format:Hardcover

To Save America by Newt Gingrich is a fantastic book laying out real solutions to our everyday problems. Each chapter does a wonderful job of laying out the problems we are facing in every day America and giving us real solutions. I was lucky enough to get an early copy and have spent most of the day reading it. Trust me this book is worth the read and you should pick up a copy for yourself to find out why.

151 of 230 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative May 17, 2010

By J. Gaines

Format:Hardcover

While I have only read the first Chapter, which I downloaded last night from his website, I was very impressed. Within those first 30 pages Newt was doing what he does best, teach.

I have been sitting on the sidelines watching the transformative policy taken by Obama, and despite going to Tea Parties, I have not felt that I can make an impact, and give direction to our movement. Newt's ability to show where change can occur and in what direction it can be moved makes me feel responsible again and it lets me have faith that this is my country.

Like he did in 1994, with this book Newt shows that Republicans are not just the party of "no".

95 of 145 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars What every American should know about the Obama Administration May 18, 2010

By Kipp Lanham

Format:Hardcover

While the mass media has been enamored with President Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress, they have been lacking in their journalistic duties by not calling into question the detrimental policies that have been passed only to endanger the future of America. However, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes the Obama Administration to task in his latest book, "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine."

From the outset, Gingrich astutely explains the threats posed to individual liberties and limited government by President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. As the three leaders of the secular-socialist machine, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are unilaterally pushing through legislation such as health care reform and government bailouts, which Gingrich and fellow experts from organizations such as the Center for Health Transformation argue will overburden taxpayers, kill jobs, and amass ineffective bureaucracy upon individuals. Gingrich breaks it down for the reader in common sense language that the Left are stripping away traditional America with its limited government, free markets, and religious principles and replacing it with big government policies favoring unions and other ideologues. Through chapters proposing policy reforms on health care, energy, green conservatism, and education, Gingrich convincingly details how America can regain its prominence in the world and how the individual can triumph over the encroachment of big government.

Although to readers who may deem Gingrich a partisan conservative, he acknowledges encouraging initiatives from across the aisle. For instance, Gingrich lauds First Lady Michelle Obama for her campaign against obesity in children.... If only more Democrats and Republicans could engage in such noble campaigns and reach across the aisle to legislate common sense reforms that will encourage economic growth, job creation, competitiveness in math and science education, and real health care reform. Gingrich closes by leaving it up to the reader to decide as an American citizen to get involved in elections so government works for the people not for bigger government. The American citizen can start by reading and sharing this book with everyone they know. Read more ›

4.0 out of 5 stars To save America May 23, 2013

By Dr. Di

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I liked this book. I like Newt anyway. He tells is like it is and gives references which are historically accurate. I'd like to have him for a history teacher!

4.0 out of 5 stars Arming a Nation with facts May 9, 2013

By sheri louis

Format:Paperback

American Exceptionalism ... Who coined this awkward phrase, anyway!

It is true, however, that many Americans have forgotten that we were once very exceptional. Gingrich attempts to reconnect Americans with their Nation's founding ideals and historic values. We may call ourselves Americans, even born in America, but the way we live is not how the Declaration defines citizenship. This book recounts a many of our past successes and suggests provisions for the future

Read with an open mind and glean some ideas that will help you improve your Country

Note: I gave Gingrich's Real Change a "5" and recommend you read that first..

62 of 95 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars America needs saving from Obama's secular socialist agenda May 17, 2010

By J. Barker

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Newt is the man that should be leading this country into the new millennium. He is simply brilliant and knows history and it's consequences like no other. Can't wait til November and better even yet, 2012 when someone hopefully like Newt Gingrich is elected president. Wake up America!

30 of 46 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars audiobook is not read by Newt May 30, 2010

By Jeff Middleswart

Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase

I do a fair amount of driving and enjoy having audiobooks to listen to during that time. Newt Gingrich is very articulate and brings enormous insight and knowledge to many topics and I am always on the lookout for his latest speeches and books. I couldn't wait for this one and bypassed the hard-copy to grab the audiobook which said it is read by Newt. Well - it is not read by him. He reads the chapter titles and his wife reads the book in a monotone passionless voice so it sounds like a textbook. The topics and information are great, with the normal abundance of examples to illustrate his points. However, the emotion and delivery that Newt would have brought to this as an audiobook is not there so it doesn't hold your attention at all. This isn't Rocky stumbling through Green Eggs and Ham when he was reading aloud to Talia Shire in a coma - Calista's voice is clear and articulate. But, the pace never changes, the tone stays the same, the volume never increases or falls, sacasism is delivered in the same bland manner as the rest of the book and loses its impact. It's probably even worse to have Newt jump in every 10 minutes and announce a new chapter heading as it reminds you that the whole book is his words and you're not hearing him deliver them. I'll have to purchase the hard copy as there is no way I'll survive the audiobook delivery but the content is very good so far. I cannot even give this to non-political friends because while they may have listened to Newt's voice, they'll never even finish 20 minutes of this version.