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colonial america and sweet land of liberty. how do we get people interested in history? and we think sometimes in novels you can get people inside people s minds, inside the emotions and bring it to life in a way that leads them to go on to read books that are nonfiction. speaker gingrich, thank you very much for being on the show this morning. good to see you again. thanks a lot. and great to see calista, as well. maybe we can take another picture. we keep putting it on the air. you can read an excerpt on our blog she s very proud of her t-shirt. i m proud of her. i think she s my favorite student. more than me. another landslide. right. easy vote. i m proud of my b plus. best grade i ve ever gotten. up next, the rapidly shrinking inner circle. what would it mean for the president to be without some of his most trusted advisers in the second term? also the editor of newsweek
greta: a new children s book is teaching kids about our country. the author? calista gingrich. nice to see you. thank you. this is fun. a brand new book land of the pilgrim s pride starring alice the elephant. this is his second book. first is sweet land of liberty . this he discovers colonial america. greta: how do you coming up come up with the concept? i don t know how she picked it. i was for a hamster at one point. i lost. greta: good to know that. with a hamster you know, didn t have the same ring. i knew we needed a unique character to capture the
book sweet land of liberty which is great if you re courting the k to 8 vote. she s doing a lot of that this week. she has nine scheduled campaign stops, four of them are too elementary schools. kids cannot vote, but they can buy books. the gingrich campaign has been defined by its multitasking, part campaign, part book tour. this is at a national federation for republican women event in kansas, missouri back in october mr. gingrich was the featured speaker and right after he walked off stage and set up tables for a good old fashion promotional event to sign their representative books. the book is about a character called ellis the elephant. here is the ellis the elephant brought to life by a person in a big plushy kcostume.