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Newt Gingrich: 17-Century Samurai Warlord

[Former campaign manager Carlyle] Gregory also said that in 1978 Gingrich was reading the novel Shogun by James Clavell, and that a major character—Toranaga, a seventeenth-century samurai warlord—had a powerful influence on him…The book is a narrative of Toranaga’s quest for the absolute power of shogun.

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    So all we have to do to get rid...him is convince Obama he has

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