Palin Book Apparently Accomplishes the Impossible -Makes Palin Look Sympathetic – Who Would Have Thought

No The Dismal Political Economist Has Not and Will Not Read Book – He Doesn’t Do That Sort of Thing



Nancy Doherty

Joe McGinniss

THE ROGUE

Searching for the Real Sarah Palin

By Joe McGinniss

Illustrated, 321 pages. Crown Publishers. $25.







Political author Joe McGinness has written a book about former Alaska Governor and former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.  To reviewers it comes across as so bad, so poorly written, so lacking in substance and so filled with innuendo, gossip, and news that has nothing to do with Ms. Palin’s public persona.

Here what the New York Times book review has to say

most of “The Rogue” is dated, petty and easily available to anyone with Internet access, Mr. McGinniss used his time in Alaska to chase caustic, unsubstantiated gossip about the Palins, often from unnamed sources like “one resident” and “a friend.”.

But the really good (meaning really awful) report on the book  comes from the Washington Post.

author Joe McGinniss has done something truly remarkable. He actually makes the short-serving former Alaska governor and widely panned reality TV star a slightly more sympathetic character, at least for the regrettable time one wastes reading “The Rogue,” his sketchily sourced compendium of low blows and inconsistent accusations.

Mr. McGinniss released his book to Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau who has used excerpts in his comic strip.  Apparently that’s where the book belongs.  The sad part, there is enough material for at least three volumes cataloguing the shortcomings and lack of qualifications of the public Ms. Palin.  Why didn’t Mr. McGinniss write that book?