Inside the Beltway

Bubba’s anniversary

Each September 11th ask why

The best President money could buy

— When Osama bin Laden

Might well have been gotten —

Did not even bother to try.

—F.R. Duplantier

Avid reader

He’s made a name for himself as speaker of the House, as CEO of the communications firm the Gingrich Group, as senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Hoover Institution, and as a political pundit on virtually every major television network.

Now, Newt Gingrich has been voted a “Top Reviewer” by Amazon.com readers.

“Speaker Gingrich is an avid reader,” says the giant bookseller, which counts 120 recent reviews by Mr. Gingrich. “He does not review all of the books he reads. You will not find any bad reviews here, just the books he thinks you might enjoy.”

Among the reviews: “The Cutout” by Francine Matthews (“I highly recommend this novel”), “The Protector” by David Morrell (“You won’t put it down”), and “City of Bones” by Michael Connely (“Excellent writing for a haunting novel”).

We might point out that Mr. Gingrich will be signing his own latest best seller, “Gettysburg: A Novel of the Civil War,” this evening from 7 to 9 at Books-A-Million in McLean. Without giving away the plot, imagine a Confederate victory at Gettysburg.

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