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Published: 08/15/10

Marianne Gingrich: More Tales From the Marital Crypt

By  Eleanor Clift - Politics Daily
Marianne Gingrich: More Tales From the Marital Crypt

The profile of Newt Gingrich that appears in the current issue of Esquire features an interview with one of his ex-wives, Marianne Gingrich. She says nice things about her ex, especially considering how they parted (he cheated on her), but she doesn't think he should be president. He re-invents himself so often that she thinks he has lost touch with who he is. Reading the piece, I was reminded of an interview my late husband and I did with Marianne in the fall of 1995, when we were researching "War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics," which chronicled her then-husband's rise from insurgent ...

Published: 08/11/10

Newt Gingrich's Skeletons: His Past Wives

By  Sarah Wildman - Politics Daily
Newt Gingrich's Skeletons: His Past Wives

Newt Gingrich is a phoenix. He's risen again and again from political ashes and appears to be ascendant once more. Rumored to be running for president in 2012, Gingrich is an icon in the Republican Party, an eminence grise at a time of lost leadership. His fall from grace in the late 1990s seems a blip, rather than a political ending. Thus the cover story in Esquire Magazine, September issue, written by John H. Richardson. If anyone knows something about Newt Gingrich, it is his former wife, Marianne, and Richardson scored an interview with her. She is someone with a bone to pick, one that ...

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