A brilliant historian (who happens to be running for President) offers the definitive history of Western Civilization
By Alexandra Petri
ComPost from the Washington Post
Newt Gingrich is back on top of the Republican pack. First, at such a critical time for Floridians, let’s peer inside his mind.
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, by Newt Gingrich
0 AD: Birth of Jesus. A pretty good guy, but no Newt Gingrich.
476: Rome falls. Newt Gingrich could have averted this.
1215: The English wisely take Newt Gingrich’s suggestion to write the Magna Carta.
1492: Newt suggests, winking, that Columbus sail the wrong way to India, “where I think you’ll find something very interesting.”
1533: Henry VIII decides to take the same number of wives as Newt Gingrich.
1602: Gingrich writes “Hamlet.”
1776: Inspired by “A Nation Like No Other” by Newt Gingrich, available now in hardcover on Amazon.com for just $11.25, the Founding Fathers write the Declaration of Independence.
(More here.)
ComPost from the Washington Post
Newt Gingrich is back on top of the Republican pack. First, at such a critical time for Floridians, let’s peer inside his mind.
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD, by Newt Gingrich
0 AD: Birth of Jesus. A pretty good guy, but no Newt Gingrich.
476: Rome falls. Newt Gingrich could have averted this.
1215: The English wisely take Newt Gingrich’s suggestion to write the Magna Carta.
1492: Newt suggests, winking, that Columbus sail the wrong way to India, “where I think you’ll find something very interesting.”
1533: Henry VIII decides to take the same number of wives as Newt Gingrich.
1602: Gingrich writes “Hamlet.”
1776: Inspired by “A Nation Like No Other” by Newt Gingrich, available now in hardcover on Amazon.com for just $11.25, the Founding Fathers write the Declaration of Independence.
(More here.)
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