Newt Gingrich sure knows his literature — including his own.
The former House speaker took the podium at the Heritage Foundation Monday morning to discuss the need for a more robust national security. Throughout his address, Gingrich, who’s submitted scores of book reviews on Amazon.com, couldn’t resist name-dropping a few titles of his favorite books and movies, two books of which were his. He named Tom Clancy’s novel “Debt of Honor” and the Kurt Russell movie “Executive Decision” to show Sept. 11 wasn’t too difficult to imagine and said there “wasn’t a failure to imagine the possibility, just a failure to adopt public policy” to counteract it.
He mentioned “One Second After” by William Forstchen, which deals with electro-magnetic pulse devices, something Gingrich claims are the “most dangerous threat” to national security right now. Then there was the documentary “2 Million Minutes,” invoked to prove his point that improving education is a strong component of national security. Two of his own books, “Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th” and “To Try Men’s Souls” (both of which he co-wrote with Forstchen) also made an appearance in his speech.
