Newt Gingrich

Speaker Gingrich is an avid reader. He does not review all of the books he reads. You will not find any bad reviews here, just the books he thinks you might enjoy.

Newt Gingrich is the CEO of The Gingrich Group, a communications, and management-consulting firm. He is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a political analyst for the Fox News Channel.

A highly sought after public speaker and world-renowned strategist, Gingrich served as a Member of Congress for twenty years and as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999. He is widely recognized as the chief architect of the Republican Contract with America, as well as the key strategist and leader behind the 1994 Republican election victory.

Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, the first balanced budget in a generation, and the first tax cuts in sixteen years. The Washington Times called him "the indispensable leader," and Time magazine, in naming him Man of the Year for 1995, said, "Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional."

Widely recognized for his commitment to a better system of health, his leadership helped save Medicare from bankruptcy, prompted FDA reform to help the seriously ill and initiated a new focus on research, prevention and wellness. The American Diabetes Association awarded him their highest non-medical award and the March of Dimes named him their 1995 Georgia Citizen of the Year. He is a Board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is currently focused on developing a patient centered health and healthcare system that is based on the information-age, using innovation and technology to improve the quality of care for every individual.

Gingrich has raised millions of dollars for charity, donating both time and money to a wide array of causes, including Habitat for Humanity, United Cerebral Palsy, the American Cancer Society, and ZooAtlanta. In 1998, the Georgia Wildlife Federation named him Legislative Conservationist of the Year.

Recognized worldwide as an expert on world history, military issues and international affairs, Speaker Gingrich serves Secretary Rumsfeld as a member of his Defense Policy Board. As a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he serves on the Council's Terrorism Task Force.

In 1999, Gingrich was appointed to The United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, to look at our national security challenges as far out as 2025. The Commission's report, the most profound rethinking of defense strategy since 1947, concluded that the number one threat to the United States was the likelihood over the next 25 years of a weapon of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical, and/or biological being used against one or more major cities unless our defense and intelligence structures underwent a massive transformation. That report was published six months before September 11th. Because of his work on the Commission, Newt Gingrich is credited with the idea of a Homeland Security agency.

A leading advocate of increasing Federal funding for basic science research, Newt Gingrich is a was the first recipient of the Science Coalition's first Science Pioneer award given to him for his outstanding contributions to educating the public about science and its benefits to society. Before his election to Congress, he taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for eight years. He has a Bachelor's degree from Emory University, and a Master's and Doctorate from Tulane University in Modern European History.

Gingrich is the author of five books including the best sellers, Contract with America and To Renew America. Newt resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista. He has two daughters, a granddaughter, and a grandson.