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Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Newt Gingrich (Author), David Cochran Heath (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher)

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Best-selling author Newt Gingrich proposes a bold vision ofthe future: America is on the cusp of a renaissance, a new birth of technological and scientific innovation that will dramatically transform the prosperity and quality of life of every American. Our biggest enemy? Special interest groups, powerful lobbyists, and government bureaucrats who aredetermined to squash, control, or prevent these innovations - and permanently change the future of America. These are the enemies of the future - powerful forces determined to prevent the enormous benefits that American ingenuity will bring.

In his groundbreaking new book, Breakout, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich sketches America's future, brimming withpossibilities and prosperity. Despite big government regulation and taxation, despite special interest groups and lobbyists, American entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and scientists are still abundantly creative and productive.

Gingrich describes the top technologies that promise to change theway we live and prosper, including 3D printing, driverless cars, breakthroughs in genetics and medicine, unprecedented and ever-growing Internet connectivity,and the new "app store" model of business development.

Will big government, whacky extremists, and powerful lobbyists stop these innovations? They will try - with punitive taxes, stiflingregulation, and hopelessly outdated policies. Will Americans allow it? Newt Gingrich sounds the rallying cry to make sure we defeat the enemies of the future.

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Listening Length	7 hours and 46 minutes
Author	Newt Gingrich
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Publisher	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Wayne Lundberg

Newt's attack on todays Luddites is a strong shot of hope.

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013

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The awesome power of the amygdala (reptilian brain) is the true villain in this story of humanity's progress toward some kind of heaven on earth. This little brain is the gate-keeper of all our experiences which make up our belief system... from early brainwashing of children to post adulthood and explains why some people will never become Democrats if they lived in a world of Republicans.

Newt shows us just how difficult, yet just how rewarding it can be to challenge the status quo. When James Watt improved steam engine technology to the point where you could put an engine on wheels and create the railroad, or steamboat, or looms, we see the first real revolution and openly hostile reluctance to change. Think Luddite.

The cultural lie that 'necessity is the mother of invention' has been put down quite nicely in Newt's book. There are just too many innovations that started simply as an idea in somebody's head who had the temerity to ignore naysayers and just do it. Edison and the light bulb.

Then there are those innovations which started as simple experiments to see if the idea might work... commercialising the idea most often came later, as we see with the Wright Brother's airplane. After all, nobody was standing around waiting to buy a ticket to fly somewhere. And everybody was quite happly burning kerosente in lamp or using candles for light.

As I was reading the book I turned on the TV to relax my eyes for a while and Stossel was on, showing how some millions of rules and regulations are killing the goose that up to now, has been routinely laying golden eggs. Why the green revolution seems to be dominated by people who might do better in an asylum. I fought off depression as Newt dug into the Khan Academy's pure effort to be a contributing force to improve our education by providing a better alternative, and how teachers and teacher union are ganging up to prevent the concept from spreading.

Newt's book is mostly upbeat and inspiring, tackling the 'prison guards' with a bit of logic, something unheard of in the liberal, collectivist mindset.

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Antony Ivins

Newt is a man who urgently wants to make life better for Americans

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2014

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Mr Gingrich vividly expresses an alternative American Way to the present doldrums. The overwhelming impression that I am left with, as an Englishman: Newt is a man who urgently wants to make life better for Americans. It comes through strongly in his thinking, ideas and explanations. You realise that he is ‘the great president that America never had’.

He sees the presidency as an opportunity: the means to create the conditions for the ordinary man to make the little forward steps that eventually turn into a great rushing avalanche in better human existence. He identifies the permanent political establishment as primarily concerned with the preservation of the status quo. They are preoccupied with the brake-pedal, the creation of regulations to prevent or slow down the advancement and introduction of new discovery that could immediately benefit Americans. Newt wants the business of governance to be primarily concerned to encourage creation, not building more secure prison walls to keep the people’s future as the same old same old.

Newt is passionate about a better system for the delivery of education, made available for all ages, all of the time, as the basic tool for ensuring a good and creative nation. He equally is concerned about making available, much more quickly, the latest good health innovations for all the people, at affordable prices. He wants the emphasis of governance to be about industrious tax-payers not sedentary welfare recipients. He regards the unfettered information revolution is the present most potent assistance to making the big breakthroughs that will see the fulfilment of a new exciting update of the American Dream.

This book written for Americans, has important messages and ideas for the people of my nation – the United Kingdom.

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Eugene Kasper

Proven concepts that propose a better life for all

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2013

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This is a common sense book. In my view it is about having sensible and prudent policies that allow innovation to take place without the collectivist mentality of control that is harming our families. What Newt points out is our government and many large businesses restrict prosperity by limiting innovation and therefore economic growth and our health. No where does New propose to rape the natural environment as stated in other reviews. In fact he promotes better conservation using innovation.

Why can't we save 40,000 lives lost to traffic deaths a year with more intelligence in our cars and roadways? We have known this to be a possibility since the mid-1980s. Why not save wasted gasoline with better controlled cars and highways? Why not have energy independence? Why not support the middle class with $2.00 gasoline, less electrical costs and inexpensive education? Why not allow people to choose medicines if they understand the risks? Why not be for more prosperity and a better quality of life for most people? The objections to these propositions that are reasonable and obtainable is interesting but ridiculous.

Great book that everyone should read. The solutions are there and they are clear – so let's get going and do it. Better health, more prosperity, better environment, longer life – why do so many object to that?

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G. Frye

It is exciting to learn about and think of what our future may be like with jobs for drone pilots 3D printing operators

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2014

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I believe it gives an exciting look at some technologies and things either already here or coming in the future. I have personally seen some of them coming. It is exciting to learn about and think of what our future may be like with jobs for drone pilots 3D printing operators, programmers, etc. and instead of crowd medical therapy to be able to get individual therapy matched to your DNA . WOW! what an experience to see all that is presented in the book.

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MrE

A big eye-opener into the problems Americas faces and how the Establishment has become the roadblock to reform!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2016

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Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during Bill Clinton's time in office, seen as a very successful leader, he helped turn America around at a time when it wasn't doing so well. If you have never listened to him speak then you are missing out and i suggest you search for his speeches on YouTube, often he is very plain spoken and will tell you very frankly what the problem is on a particular subject and suggest many ways in which to solve it. He is a big ideas man and thinks about bold and dynamic solutions. Essentially he thinks outside of the box and uses lots of common sense in the process.

This book offers a huge insight into his thinking around many different areas of American society, he talks about the root causes to several problems and offers solutions using real world examples where those solutions have already been tested elsewhere and have worked. The book is called "breakout" because as he suggests, America has to break free from the shackles of the "prison guards" that are holding America hostage in so many different areas. Education and Healthcare being just two of the major topics that he discusses.

Newt has a great way with words and has written this book in a manner that makes the book flow which in turn makes it a joy to read. Very factual and insightful, this book will definitely be an eye opener although it's not a political book, rather a frank assessment of how politics can get in the way of progress and how the elites or establishment in each field fear real change.

I enjoyed reading this and would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about the real problems facing America in the 21st Century, Newt doesn't drone on, he gets to the point and explains it and then will move onto something else, definitely not a dull read!

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