Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Future

David Drake, Newt Gingrich, Marianne Gingrich. St. Martin's Press, $7.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-93923-6

Gingrich, a Republican congressman from Georgia, outlines a plan for creating an ""opportunity society,'' founded in part on more space exploration and further advances in computer technology. His wide-ranging discussion also touches on such topics as inefficiency, Social Security and the Pentagon. PW remarked: ``Rightists will embrace Gingrich's program; it will give pause to centrists; leftists will dismiss it.'' December

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