So exactly how many Sarah Palin books are there?
By Marjorie Kehe | 11.03.09
Readers can be forgiven for feeling a bit confused. Sarah Palin’s memoir “Going Rogue: An American Life” is being published on Nov. 17, right? Yes. So what are all these other Sarah Palin books garnering so much attention?
If you have a moment, pull up a chair and I will explain.
Being released today is “Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar” by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe. The authors are reporters (Conroy is a digital journalist for CBS News and Walshe was a reporter and producer at Fox News) who were “embedded” on the Palin vice-presidential campaign trail. They cover Palin up through her resignation from Alaska’s governorship and claim that their book portrays her as neither “a heroic everywoman or ridiculous dolt.”
On Nov. 12 comes “The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star” by Matthew Continetti. Continetti is an associate editor at The Weekly Standard magazine. The book’s subtitle probably tells you all you need to know about the book’s political orientation but in case you’re interested, Karl Rove calls it “a tough, revealing look at how the bias or habits of liberals in the media led them to assault a political figure who shared neither their values nor background.” Rove also suggests that, “Whether you like Sarah Palin or not, this well-researched and meticulous volume strips the bark off influential players in journalism.”
On the 17th, just as Palin’s own book hits bookstores, readers will also be able to pick up “Going Rouge: An American Nightmare,” a collection of essays pulled together by two senior editors at Nation magazine. Here, again, the subtitle probably tells you all you need to know about the book’s angle on Palin, but if you need another clue, consider the fact that its publisher, OR Books, has a self-described “distinctive progressive edge.”
To make this all more confusing, however, is the fact that another “Going Rouge” is being published on the same day. That “Going Rouge” is a satirical coloring book by Julie Sigwart and Micheal Stinson who identify themselves as “longtime liberal activists.”
Longer range, journalist Joe McGinniss (”The Selling of the President,” “Fatal Vision”) is currently researching his own unauthorized Palin biography.
Whether the amount of attention being focused on Palin is a good thing for the American political process is, of course, a matter for debate. What seems unarguable, however, is that it’s going to be very good for a handful of publishers.
Marjorie Kehe is the Monitor’s book editor. You can follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/MarjorieKehe.
Comments
3. James Huffer (Washington DC) | 11.03.09
The real question in this issue is how “Going Rogue” will be classified in the library, a biography or work of fiction. So far, the vote leans very strongly to a work of fiction when those who really know her are polled.
4. RichmondRob | 11.03.09
The other books written about Palin are clearly trying to both take advantage of the interest in her and to diminish her own book. I will only be buying Ms. Palin’s book and will be trying to see if she has any good ideas on where she would guide the country if she were given the opportunity. For me she represents hope for the future.
5. wrw | 11.03.09
When I see a ignorant comment like the one Pat Obama Beaux made its makes me want to support Sarah Palin even more! We may not know if Pat is a woman or a man but we certainly know what political party he belongs to.
6. Tourist | 11.03.09
Seeing the comment of wrw makes me wonder if he thinks Palin’s book will have any partisan bias to it. Gotta love Mrs. Palin’s business sense though: giving up a cheap governorship in order to cash in. I’m sure there’s no one upset she wants to charge the Iowa Republicans $100,000. to come there and speak. Certainly doesn’t sound like she’s going to be running for President, at least not in Iowa.
7. stick458 | 11.03.09
You can tell whom liberals fear by considering whom they pay attention to, and whom they try to belittle. Sarah Palin is their greatest fear, for good reason. She is going to continue to be a significant part of the decline of liberalism in the U.S.
8. Ted Allegri | 11.03.09
Sarah Palin may be the best chance to begin to get America back. She has actual work experience in her background and not from the eletist lawyer gene pool. That in itself is refreshing. Look at BO and his wife,John Kerry and his wife, Nancy Pelosi,Harry Reid, Bill and Hillary Clinton, all of them are lawyers. One of the main problems with health care is lawyers, but the lawyers are running the show, so do you think we’ll get meaningful tort reform in health care? That is what has gone so wrong with this country’s direction. More power to her, and I hope we see her again in the political arena. Go Sarah!
9. REDINCA | 11.03.09
When liberals cannot debate or make a statement with substance,they only ATTACK. Why are they so determined to trash everyone they disagree with? I didn’t vote for Obama,but I was willing to see where he was taking our country.And now Sarah Palin will enlighten us with the real hope and change we need. God works in mysterious ways. Thank God for all of our freedoms,well,what we have left.
10. Jeanne T. | 11.03.09
Sarah Palin will defeat Obama. Sarah, who is always gracious, never mean-spirited. Sarah, who has more brains in her little finger than Obama has in his head. Sarah, who understands what America is all about, who has more knowledge of the U.S., its Constitution, and its Declaration of Indpendence, the two documents Obama despises. He despises those two sacred documents as much as he hates the United States.
Sarah Palin will defeat Obama.
11. John Estrada | 11.03.09
All these liberal Sarah books are typical of liberals trying to cash in on someone else. The lawyers,unions and dim politicians are the reason this country is so screwed up today.Of course thw welfare crowd in breaking the country at every level. Healthcare will only finish us off. Palin is the only one with the star power to beat these imbeciles back and get our country back.I know one thing Gen. McCrystal wouldn’t have to chase Palin down for a meeting or play golf while soldiers are dying.
12. Andi Brown | 11.03.09
I heard the story about this NPR with a hypothesis that readers will tire of her after reading Going Rogue and therefore won’t pick up either of the parodies called Going Rouge (great title). Huh? I don’t really see an overlap of audiences.
13. cupofsoup | 11.03.09
just go to show you libs fear women who dont bow down to there masters. libs want sheria law to keep women dumbed down and keep minority’s dumb. ie inner city schools. go sarah!!!!!
14. sharon brooks | 11.03.09
i think, that if someone has got a problem with SARAH Palin it,s because they know that she has what it takes to get the job done . who out there fears a woman? what would any one have to fear ,except that one thing ,they would be kicked out of there office i think they should give her some time and lets just see what she does, there is a lot of trouble in this country and i see her as something good. and we are, after all a great nation i think we can give her that much. what do you call it?i call it a second chance.
15. KH | 11.04.09
As Glenn Beck said “We are all NY-23″ and if that is true then NY-23 race is the canary in the mineshaft for the Republican Party.
If the Republican party feels that it can chase out it’s moderates and still win national elections, you are so deep into denial you need a flashlight to get out. Sarah Palin, by supporting a more conservative independent, gave NY-23 to the Dems. This is a district that rarely (if ever) goes Democratic. This is a district that seems tailor made for Palin and her candidate still lost.
Beware of throwing out your so-called RINOs unless the Republican party only wants to be a viable southern party with no chance of having an national influence.
16. Jud Williams | 11.04.09
Here we go again, the Christian Science Monitor placing a article for the usual intent of presenting a forum, giving those who disagree with Sarah Palin, the opportunity to vilify her. Shame on the CSMonitor (and yes, it is very obvious)
17. Josiah Frumpacker | 11.04.09
Yet, two more Sarah Palin books:
Sarah Palin: Going Rude - www.GoingRude.com
Sarah Palin: Going Bogus - www.GoingBogus.com
18. BrainlessPalin | 11.07.09
Published, sadly yes.
Purchased and read? No.
Nobody with any shred of intellect will attempt to read the brainless ramblings of a person with the brain of a doorknob.
What is her educational background again? Actual governing experience?
You betcha!
19. Helm | 11.07.09
Why don’t you just sit back and wait and see. At least she has guts and thank God she is not a Democrat.
20. DEW | 11.07.09
But wrw, it’s true-her own words condemn her-check out what it say about this in the Bible, hon-
21. Trendy T | 11.07.09
And the liberals just keep pounding on her because she is so irrelevant.
Who are they kidding? Even their core liberals are beginning to understand that bashing someone once is enough - dozens of times is an obsession.
It’s like HObama - the more they try to make him out as a savior the more he looks like Satan.
22. 1Laughman | 11.07.09
As A Liberal I just love Sara Palin and the few extreme Right Wing Nuts that support her… Just gives us 7 more years of Dem control… Thanks :-)))
23. E.J. | 11.07.09
Sarah Palin is a moron. I take that comment with a grain of salt of course, being distrustful of most political circles (Republican & Democrat).
If Palin wasn’t a woman she wouldn’t even be getting this attention, she be getting criticized for more of the same old, same old, politics.
25. Bobbie | 11.07.09
There are so many Americans, each with or own take on everything that comes into our lives. Yes we can start to migrate toward those who share similar ideas and yes sometimes these migrations become movements or even political parties. But remember they came from one and then another and then another, growing to a size that becomes visible to others. ALL these people have a right to say and even be heard if there are some ears around to listen.
Everyone has to STOP thinking, assuming and believe that these ideas are methods of subterfuge. I am far from a Sarah Palin fan. I do not like that she went from school to school to school to get a bachelor degree. I do not consider Alaska’s small towns a great grooming ground for the presidency. I think the names she gave her children show how she is much more wrapped in the hip culture than in the dogma’s of Christianity. Obama is a well educated hardworking man and his wife the same. They followed a path in American society that demanded high aspiration and is not easily successful. Their climb was hard and their perseverance admirable. I cannot understand how anyone can put Sarah Palin above them experientially or intellectually. They are the American Dream and I say this from the bases on my religious and moral upbringing in America.
As for Sarah, I am sure there are individuals who can make a similar statement about her life. In my reality I don’t see it, but I am one person and I CAN absolutely, understand another’s point of view. And I can respect it. But I still feel I make my own choices.
Don’t let the press or Yahoo, or anyone command your choices, but please do investigate and think about those choices.
26. Pat in Texas | 11.07.09
James Huffer are you quoting people who know her (I call that hearsay) or do you know her? You don’t live in Alaska. Maybe you should have better things to do than spread “hearsay”
27. Writestuff | 11.07.09
If you could meld Sarah Palin (personality, dynamism and good looks) with John McCain (intelligence and reasoned approach to government), and you’d have one **** of a president. Then again, I used to have a similar perspective about Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. My real point is that arch conservatives and flaming liberals are equally detrimental to the republic. It’s time to put aside ideology and start choosing elected officials based on good old fashioned common sense. That is if we still have any.
28. Nameless | 11.07.09
I despise politics and stupidity. Sarah Palin represents both while Obama only half. I’ll stick with Obama even though I am republican.
29. June | 11.07.09
OH,PLEASE, look at how long she was in the Governor’s office, she went from a small town mayor’s office…the voters obviously would rather have had an unknown than an incumbent…which gave her no time to garner experience. She was a political selection selected to seem like a Republican form of Hillary.
30. Mr. Rock | 11.07.09
Sarah Palin smarter than B.O.? I am a devout Republican; always have been and always will be. But I will NOT vote for Sarah Palin. She’s not worth my time or energy. She’s uneducated, corrupt, and a liar. Well documanted by both Reps and Dems alike. Get a grip people. She’s are worst nightmare in a long time and McCain is to blame for this hoopla and smoke screen. He knew she was unqualified. He used her because she was a woman and had some looks. Nothing more and nothing less. If she was all that good she could have carried McCain to victory. We had our ***** handed to us because of her and John McCain. It’s as simple as that. America sent a message to both McCain and Palin: not a chance ever!! Educated? Come on for cryin’ out loud!! Quit deceiving yourselves and look at a true Republican. Who you ask? I don’t know either as our Good Ol’ Party isn’t in transition, it’s in chaos and disarray due to people like Crist, Mccain, Palin, Bush, Cheney and others. We need to rally around someone grounded in common sense and forget this “going rogue” idea as it has cost us dearly. Let’s get out stuff together and nurture someone with a set of values and morals. Or, we are going to end up like the dinosaurs; extinct!!!!!!!
31. Margaret | 11.07.09
Marjorie, I think you nailed it. The publishers are the ones for whom this upcoming spate of books is a good thing. As for Palin, those who love her will buy the conservative-angled books and have their opinions reinforced. Those who don’t love her will buy the liberal-angled books and have *their* opinions reinforced.
I consider all these books propaganda. All one needs to do is carefully LISTEN to the woman speak, watch her actions, and try to make sense out of it all to know who she really is and what her values are. As for my own opinion, all I can say is that her values are not mine, nor do they reflect the true message of Christ, in my view.
33. Micha Sanders | 11.07.09
We the sheeple, in order to get out of the mindless herd, must start thinking…
Come on people, wake up. Our political system is so corrupt that it no longer works. Become a thinking voter. Quit complaining and do something. Start by being active in local politics. Get informed by various sources, not just the big biased corporate media venues.
34. Barry | 11.07.09
Sarah Palin isn’t rogue. She’s just backwards Her idea of not allowing abortions in cases of rape or incest and shooting wolves from airplanes are just an example of how dim witted she really is.
35. Renegade1 | 11.07.09
Sara Palin was Miss Alaska. She’s a beauty queen, and a good one.
Why on earth she was every elected Mayor of Wasilla the later the Governor of Alaska is proof that such offices are nothing more than a popularity contest,
not a vote for ability or knowledge.
But to even consider Miss Beauty Queen as our Vice Pres or even President just scares the wits out of me. There is no way I am casting my vote for a person to run the country I and my children live in based on a beauty queen popularity vote. Just listen to her, the woman has no education on which to base giving her control of our country. Look at her track record. Just what has she accomplished for Alaska? She has been embroiled in scandal and made headlines, but she has yet to actually benefit the state in any way, shape, or form. I speak from the stance of a long term Alaskan.
Her moral values are questionable, at best, atrocious at worst.
I do not plan to read Mrs Palins book, nor contribute to her popularity.
Instead, I choose to focus on the future of our country and hope all Americans will make informed choices.
36. Eduardo Perez | 11.07.09
Hey, JL. You say that Sarah Palin is irrelevant so why do liberals keep on giving her the spotlight. Well, Sarah Palin is irrelevant indeed. The only really scary problem is that 56% of white Americans voted for her. That’s the real, fundamental nightmare both of the US and the rest of the world.
38. Robbie | 11.07.09
There is more garbage being said about Sarah Palin than there was about Jesus Christ when he walked on this earth. The truth being said by Sarah has caused the backlash by the extreme liberals.
39. SingingHawk | 11.07.09
Sarah Palin’s education and birth place have both been scrutinized and verified over and over by the so-called media. You folks who insist on trashing Sarah Palin are so in ODumbo’s pocket that you can’t see the truth about him. On January 21st, 2009, his very first day in office, Barack Obama implemented and signed into law Executive Order 13489. That the first order of business Obama took care of on day one of his Presidency was to sign off on an Executive Order that states that only the records he chooses to be made public will be released? Obama, has a lot to hide, not just his Birth Certificate. eventually he will tick off the wrong people and they will come out of the hole and tell what they know ..the truth always comes out at some point.
40. J | 11.07.09
Wow you conservatives have no clue what you’re talking about. Libs want to keep woman down….ummmm I think most liberals are for women’s rights, it’s the conservatives who want to keep women back in the 50s. You mean to tell me aging white conservatives want a woman running things, lol. Liberals have no problems with a woman in charge, however not if that woman is Sarah Palin, a complete idiot and a disgrace to the Republican party.
41. Sil in Corea | 11.07.09
Right on, Margaret! Please, folks! Use the brains God gave you and research the facts. Please, don’t fall for right-wing hyperbole or left-wing exaggeration and avoid the known spin-doctors like the plague. Search for the grains of truth and save them to plant!
42. Debbie Miles | 11.07.09
I’m always amazed at the incoherent ramblings of psuedo-intellectuals…post #30…I believe you meant to say “documented” not documanted, and your remark about her being “are” worst nightmare…perhaps you meant to say “our”…and if you are the voice of the Republican Party…we are indeed screwed. As far as the Liberals are concerned, insulting a person is the only tact available. Logical arguments totally evade liberals. Hey sheeples, you drank the Kool-Aid, and we are headed to a Marxist state…no one to blame but yourselves…but I’m sure you’ll blame Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, Bush. Blame everyone else, it’s the Liberal mantra.
43. tbetts | 11.07.09
Two years ago I was a democrat.As the party kept moveing to the socialist
left I started thinking with my brains insted of my party.Being in the militay I have seen what socialism does to a country and its people.
I moved to the right because I found they are right.
Sarah Palin is out to save what is still left of America.
Should she run for office I will vote for her at this time.
It takes guts to be against the establishment.
So you all know out there I am a literal card carring
“Right-Wing Extremist” sence leaving the left.
44. Nick | 11.08.09
McCain should have had his sanity questioned when he chose Sarah Palin. Thank God he didn’t win. I can’t imagine Sarah Palin being that close to being the White House. The American people are starting to pay closer attention. To all those Republicans that saw her as the parties rebirth think again. She is nothing more than a pretty face and a fast talker with no substance. A female version of George W. Bush who takes her orders from “the heavenly father” HA HA. The Republicans had a great candidate that I would have voted for over Obama- Ron Paul, the only honest politician out there.
45. will | 11.08.09
the liberals just cant handle the truth that Sara Palin talks about, and they want to hurt her image anyway they can. sarah is a shinning star, obama is a shinning pitchfork.
the person they fear the most gets the most attention.
46. spellcheckftw | 11.08.09
I love it when people like Debbie Miles stoop to pointing out peoples spelling errors as if to suggest that their viewpoint is no longer valid because they misspelled a word. I must point out that although this tactic may sometimes work it falls short when you yourself misspell words in your own rant about it. I’m sure you meant to say “pseudo-intellectuals” not psuedo. I guess your post is now as irrelevant since you can’t spell either. So sad
47. Carlito | 11.14.09
People like Sarah Palin are a disgrace to real conservatives. This woman is like a bad rash that won’t go away.
48. DeeDeeisRight | 11.20.09
You forgot all of the other Palin biographies that have already been published. Amazon lists forty one results alone: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_0_14?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=sarah+palin+biography&sprefix=sarah+palin+bi
It is amazing how famous she is. She has something!
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1. PAT BEAUX | 11.03.09
re Sarah, you did not have to listen to any media comments, her own words were her downfall.