Contract With America: The Bold Plan by Rep. Newt Ginrich, Rep. Dick Armey and the House Republicans to Change the Nation

Includes the contract, explains the contract, and replaces myths about the plan with facts

Now that the word Democrat has become virtually synonymous with arrogant ineptitude and and the inevitable corruptions of entrenchment, everybody in the country will be eager to discover what sort of salvation our new leaders have in store for us. Will Contract with America be the equivalent of Mao's little red book? To be fair, even Republicans have not yet gone that far. They even concede that while "the vast majority of American people" agree with the ideas behind the contract there may be some disagreement over the details. Would they also be willing to concede that this "vast majority" hasn't but the vaguest idea what this contract really is? Well, if anyone wants to know, this little book spells out the contract (four pages), repeats this process in more detail, and for each subject rebuts the "myths" about the plan with "facts." Additional cheerleading and comments by Newt Gingrich fill out the volume. In reality, many will probably agree wholeheartedly with big chunks of the contract, and in some regions of the country this little book could become a hot item, at least for the next few months. Stuart Whitwell