Robert sits down and explains former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's alt-history novel to Molly Conger. If you've ever wondered what would happen if the Nazis invaded Tennessee well, here it is.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is Newt Gingrich's alternate history novel about?
Your best bet might be to wait 20 years or so until Forstian is dead too. He is still alive. Enter a law school to become a crackerjack lawyer and publicist, and then start negotiations to have the second volume released from his estate. I love the thought of a man who's that dedicated to a 1945 sequel. I need to know how it ends. A 30-year plan to get that book.
Does Hitler die?
Hitler is still alive at the end of this book. That's what I'm saying.
It's like in the sequel. How does it end for Hitler?
I think the way this book is supposed to explain things with Hitler is that like he's in a horrible plane crash in 41. And so he gets all fucked up and his people are able to like negotiate a peace with the USSR. And as a result, he kind of loses his mind. Like he's just like this damaged, broken figure of a man in the book.
But he was so mentally normal before.
Yeah, he was doing so great before. Because this is an alt history thing and because Newt is the kind of dude that he is, the main Nazi in this is a guy named Otto Skorzeny, who is a lot of people, he was a real guy. He was one of the fathers of like modern special forces tactics. Like Skorzeny is a major figure in the development of like that kind of shit. I did find in a, there's a fucking, uh,
Orlando Sentinel book review that says that he died during an attack on Crete, which is not true. He lived until the 70s. He moved to Spain so that Franco would protect him. And he lived a fairly long life for a dude like him. But yeah. I wanted to start here with one of the most – probably the most famous passage in this book, right? The opening scene, which features a high-powered D.C.
politician who happens to be, if I'm not mistaken, the Speaker of the House.
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