http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/vanityfair1.html
Newt on Newt: “I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to….I’m a mythical person…a psychodrama living out a fantasy.”
1995 Vanity Fair piece by Gail Sheehy–a must read. Newt cooperated, is heavily quoted along with friends, family, employees, Republican officials (both friends and foes)–an amazing profile.
From the cauldron of his childhood — the father who abandoned him, the manic depressive mother who loved him too much, the stepfather whose anger shaped the family — Newt Gingrich emerged with a heroic need that became his mission. Talking to his inner circle of family, friends, and associates, a…
