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“… the attempt to track from one to five through Mr. Gingrich’s “Five Reasons for Studying American History” (“One: History is a collective memory”; “Two: American history is the history of our civilization”; “Three: There is an American exceptionalism that can best be understood through history”; “Four: History is a resource to be learned from and used”; and “Five: There are techniques that can help you learn problem-solving from historic experience”) leaves the tracker fretful, uneasy, uncertain just whose synapses are misfiring.

the teachings of speaker gingrich, joan didion, nyrb, 1995