To renew America

Summary: Responding to the concerns Americans feel for their safety, their value systems, and their children's future, Newt Gingrich calls for a return to mainstream American civilization and the basic principles upon which our country was founded. Citing the Six Challenges that we must face as a nation, he reveals commonsense solutions to the issues we care about most, such as welfare, balancing the federal budget, shifting power from the bureaucracy to the citizenry, and confirming America's leadership in the Information Age. With characteristic bluntness, Newt Gingrich describes his political allies and adversaries as he shares personal recollections of his historic first hundred days as Speaker. He also delivers practical approaches to issues as diverse as bilingualism, illegal immigration, multiculturalism, and health care.

Item details

ISBN: 006017336X
ISBN: 9780060173364
Physical Description: print
xii, 260 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, ©1995.

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The six challenges facing America -- Beginnings -- Reasserting and renewing American civilization -- America and the third wave information age -- Creating American jobs in the world market -- Replacing the welfare state with an opportunity society -- Balancing the budget and saving Social Security and Medicare -- Decentralizing power -- The contract with America and the campaign of 1994 -- Implementing the contract -- Learning versus education -- Individual versus group rights -- Illegal immigration in a nation of legal immigrants -- English as the American language -- Health care as an opportunity in the world market -- Health care as an opportunity rather than a problem -- Ending the drug trade and saving the children -- Defense for the twenty-first century : reflections of a cheap hawk -- New frontiers in science, space, and the oceans -- Tending the gardens of the earth : scientifically based environmentalism -- Violent crime, freedom from fear, and the right to bear arms -- Why Rush Limbaugh and his friends matter -- The flat tax and the IRS -- The coming crisis in higher education -- Corrections Day -- Unfunded mandate reform -- Term limits and the defeat of the Democratic leadership in the House -- A new beginning : the America we will create.