The Blue And The Yellow

Pimping "his" new novel, Gettysburg, tubby sybarite Newt Gingrich explains the creative process:

"We are all PhDs, all three of us have taught history, and we all have learned that when you reduce history to passive memorization, you lose people," Gingrich said. "So we embrace the concept of an active history: In a particular situation, what would I have done?"

Readers will be sure to enjoy the scenes where the Union Army prevails at Gettysburg because General Robert E. Lee is off attending grad school and getting blown by his colleagues' wives in the back of a wagon.