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rogue (r¯og), n: An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone,in which state it is very savage.??Webster??s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
After three years of research, bestselling journalist Joe McGinniss presents his already controversial and much anticipated investigative chronicle of Sarah Palin as an individual, politician, and cultural phenomenon.
In his critically acclaimed book about Alaska, Going to Extremes, the fledgling state itself was Joe McGinniss??s subject. Although he didn??t hesitate to reveal the many flaws and contradictions behind its ??last frontier? image, McGinniss fell in love with the land and its people. More than three decades later, he returned to Alaska in search of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin. On Election Day 2008, McGinniss began his on-the-ground reporting that culminated, famously, in his moving next door to Sarah Palin in spring 2010. THE ROGUE is the eagerly awaited result of his research and writing: a startling study of the illusion and reality of Sarah Palin??and a probing look at the Alaska and the America that produced her. Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, always provocative and illuminating, THE ROGUE answers the questions ??Who is she, really?,? ??How did she happen?,? and ??Will she ever go away?? In all of his books, McGinniss has scrutinized the mysterious space between image and reality??how that space is created, negotiated, and/or manipulated. Now, with The Rogue, McGinniss combines his deep appreciation of the place Sarah Palin comes from with his uncanny ability to penetrate the façades of people in public life. The result is an extraordinary double narrative that alternately traces Palin??s curious rise to political prominence and worldwide celebrity status and recounts the author??s day-to-day experiences as he uncovers the messy reality beneath the glossy Palin myth. Readers will find THE ROGUE at once bitingly insightful, hilarious, and profoundly ominous in what it reveals??not just about the dark underpinnings of a potential presidential nominee but also in regard to the huge… (más)
StreedsReads: Reading both pieces within a short time-frame of one another caused the reader to reflect on how pivotal media behavior became in every aspect of a political campaign as well as in an average citizen’s life. Manipulation became an devastaingly-powerful weapon.… (más)
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Joe McGinniss, whose Fatal Vision was a masterpiece of true crime writing, has written a compulsively readable book about the phenomenon known as Sarah Palin and about the phenomenal shift between admiring statesmen (and women) and worshiping at the altar of personality, where "presidential" no longer means anything than being a good drinking buddy. None of Palin's acolytes will like this book, but for those of us who only knew her as a face and a name and a public whirlwind, this is an extraordinary and revelatory work, and a real page-turner, at that. ( )
Another day, another book on the oddball phenomenon known as Sarah Palin. It really became a rather breezy, fast-paced read, partly because of its casual writing style and partly because I was really streamlining pages so I could finish it in time to return to the library. There's a lot of gossipy tones in this book, but I suppose that's only typical with these kinds of books. Kudos for the man for not completely losing it in Alaska, considering the flak he got simply from living next door to the Palins. I would not call this one of the top political reads in 2011, but it's a solid read on the media circus surrounding Palin and her own life post-2008.
Plus, you gotta tip your hat to a guy who gets a multi-strip mention in Doonesbury. That's pretty sweet. ( )
Simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. Joe is a fine writer: his exasperation with being subjected to baseless slurs in the national media after returning to Alaska to investigate the Palin phenomenon only really shines through once or twice. (I went and looked a couple of these up and yup, happened pretty much the way he says.)
Joe spends quite a bit of time excoriating the media for giving Sarah Palin the platform that she certainly had done nothing to earn, but even more emphasis here would have been welcome. He also leavens the endless Palin nonsense with moments of his pure love for Alaska's people and land, the words of the Alaskans who have decided that Palin has betrayed them, and a hysterical running joke about being offered guns by nearly everyone he meets socially.
It's obviously a good thing that Palin's bowed out of 2012, but I think the national media will continue to throw up more of these frighteningly ignorant religious candidates as long as it gets good ratings from us poor suckers who care enough to be outraged: cf. Michele Bachmann. ( )
I read this book because I wanted to find out why the Republican Party was blind sided by Sarah Palin as the Veep candidate alongside John McCain. There is not much in this about her Republican VP run. There is a lot of gossip and stories about Palin and her family during her run for Wasilla council, Mayor and then governor. The book presents a woman who is totally delusional about her abilities to manage, govern or lead anything. She comes across as a vain, narcissistic , vacuous and stupid person. Her family life according to this is severely dysfunctional and Sarah does not care for her role as a homemaker or mother. There were some interesting tidbits about Alaska. I worry about its future when seems that resource development is more important than people and the environment. Yahoos with guns and trucks seem to be running the place. The book is disjointed, with a lot of name dropping. It could have used some serious editing. Not recommended. ( )
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rogue, n.: an elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which states it is very savage -Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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For Nancy, And for the next generation: Dylan, Lauren, and Carly; Sebastian, Cecilia, and Samuel; and Julien And for Kevin, Yves, and Jeanine, without whom there would be no next next generation
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Saturday, May 22, 2010 - I moved in next door to Sarah Palin today.
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It used to be said that Wasilla was a trading outpost bounded by two lakes: Wasilla Lake and Lake Lucille. Now it’s a city of 7,028 located between Chili’s and Wendy’s and stuffed to the gills with stores such as Wal-Mart, Sears, Target, Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Fred Meyer, and enough small-fry evangelical Christian churches to make Jesus himself weep from the effort of trying to count them all.
I sincerely hope that the whole extravaganza, which has been unblushingly underwritten by a mainstream media willing to gamble the nation’s future in exchange for the cheap thrill of watching a clown in high heels on a flying trapeze, is nearing the end of its run.
rogue (r¯og), n: An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone,in which state it is very savage.??Webster??s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
After three years of research, bestselling journalist Joe McGinniss presents his already controversial and much anticipated investigative chronicle of Sarah Palin as an individual, politician, and cultural phenomenon.
In his critically acclaimed book about Alaska, Going to Extremes, the fledgling state itself was Joe McGinniss??s subject. Although he didn??t hesitate to reveal the many flaws and contradictions behind its ??last frontier? image, McGinniss fell in love with the land and its people. More than three decades later, he returned to Alaska in search of its most famous resident, Sarah Palin. On Election Day 2008, McGinniss began his on-the-ground reporting that culminated, famously, in his moving next door to Sarah Palin in spring 2010. THE ROGUE is the eagerly awaited result of his research and writing: a startling study of the illusion and reality of Sarah Palin??and a probing look at the Alaska and the America that produced her. Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, always provocative and illuminating, THE ROGUE answers the questions ??Who is she, really?,? ??How did she happen?,? and ??Will she ever go away?? In all of his books, McGinniss has scrutinized the mysterious space between image and reality??how that space is created, negotiated, and/or manipulated. Now, with The Rogue, McGinniss combines his deep appreciation of the place Sarah Palin comes from with his uncanny ability to penetrate the façades of people in public life. The result is an extraordinary double narrative that alternately traces Palin??s curious rise to political prominence and worldwide celebrity status and recounts the author??s day-to-day experiences as he uncovers the messy reality beneath the glossy Palin myth. Readers will find THE ROGUE at once bitingly insightful, hilarious, and profoundly ominous in what it reveals??not just about the dark underpinnings of a potential presidential nominee but also in regard to the huge
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