How did Newt Gingrich and the 1994 Congress pressage the Republican Party of today?

Julian Zellitzer will be here to discuss his new book, Burning Down the House.

How do you write about a sexual assault that took place at a New England boarding school

25 years ago?

Lisi Crawford joins us to talk about her memoir, Notes on Assign Lansing.

Elizabeth Harris will give us an update from the publishing world, plus we'll talk about

what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Bookerview Podcast for the New York Times.

It's July 17th.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Julian Zellitzer joins us now.

He's a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton.

And his latest book is called Burning Down the House, Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a

Speaker, and The Rise of the New Republican Party.

Julian, thank you for being here.

Thanks so much for having me.

This feels like an episode out of like not just the recent, it's not the recent passage.

It feels like the distant past.

I mean, Newt is still with us, but this is a very different time for Newt.

I think that for many people, he started to really appear on people's radars outside

of Georgia, you know, in the early 90s with a contract for America, but your book predates

that.

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