While he clearly thought highly of himself (the timeline linked states that he tried to become department chair in his second year-an odd move for a variety of reasons. He was hired as an assistant professor (a tenure track position) at West Georgia College. The most damning thing to me from an academic point of view: no evidence Gingrich did any field work in the Congo. His dissertation was entitled “Belgian Education Policy in the Congo: 1945-1960.” A political scientist at Morehouse College gave the thing a look: click. in Modern European History in 1971 from Tulane. He earned a BA in history from Emory in 1965. Indeed, I have some historian friends who would love to understand how it is possible to make seven figures doing consultation work!Īll of this made me want to revisit Gingrich’s bio in terms of his academic credentials.
The notion that they wanted Gingrich as a historian and not as a politician is absurd on its face. Of course, one of the weird things about that assertion is that Newt’s dissertation was on colonialism in the Congo, not the history of, say, financial crashes. “ My advice as a historian, when they walked in and said to me, ‘We are now making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that’s what the government wants us to do.’ As I said to them at the time, this is a bubble. “I offered them advice on precisely what they didn’t do,” he said at the debate.
A recent example of this is the following explanation for the work he did for Freddie Mac: One of Newt’s claim to fame is that he is a historian.
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