Going Rogue: An American Life di Sarah Palin

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Going Rogue: An American Life (originale 2009; edizione 2009)

di Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin, the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate, recounts her political experiences, her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign, and the personal challenges she's faced including balancing her time as a working mother, recognizing the war's impact with her son serving combat in Iraq, having a child with a disability, and supporting her teenage daughter with an unplanned pregnancy.… (altro)

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Utente:	lhargrave89
Titolo:	Going Rogue: An American Life
Autori:	Sarah Palin
Info:	HarperCollins (2009), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 432 pages
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BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |

Folksy, homespun Sarah at her best, presenting herself as a likeable, common-folk individual with common-sense values. She presents herself as a Reagan Republican, someone interested not in the big government, but as one who believes in self-reliance and in doing the right thing for the right people and the right reasons.

She seems to play the "victim" at times, trying to offset bad perspectives from the presidential campaign. There's plenty of blame for campaign strategists, esp. McCain's lead guys, and complaints about media distortions, liberal bias, and bias by omission. But if she's asked about what publications she reads to stay current on national policies and foreign policy, and can't come up with an answer, that really isn't the fault of the media. In a presidential election, stakes are high, and preparation is mandatory. But to some extent, she's probably right, the media does often seem to want to create controversy. Also, the public did seem to want to learn more about her experience, or lack of it, when considering her for national office. Saying you can see Russia from parts of Alaska isn't the answer the media, or the nation, was going to consider as strong foreign policy experience. It's not unfair. And I don't think the media "omitted" to explain the $100,000 wardrobe issue, as she states. I certainly read that it wasn't she who ordered the clothes, but was the RNC, and that the clothes were returned. I understood that before I read her book. So some of the whining she did sounded more like a complaint about any media outlet that wasn't Republican friendly such as Fox news.

The book is probably successful in its intent, carefully crafted to present Sarah as someone likeable enough so that those who think her background, training and experience is too limited for the significantly more burdensome challenges of higher office may well disregard all that and say, "what the heck, she can't do much worse than the standard male politician". But parts of the book seemed to be stolen from the handbook of the ideal American, embellishing her story to the point that I just couldn't buy into it all. I still haven't found anyone else in real life with comparable claims of their first childhood memories of going to school of being proud to learn to recite the Pledge of Aliegance, and then have her recite it in the audiobook version of the book.

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rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |

This book was ghostwritten to promote Palin's political career. You already know if you'll like it or not. (

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neverstopreading | Mar 14, 2018 |

Disappointing in regard to revelations of much of anything new - but the book did help me make a decision that while Sarah may have some important things to say (things that should be paid attention to by Americans and the news media without name-calling or immediate dismissal or ridicule), I most likely would not support her as a presidential candidate (

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highlander6022 | Mar 16, 2016 |

Very well written an informative. I see this as Palin's Doctrine. (

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ericadrayton | Jan 8, 2015 |

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When [this book's] pages are not dismally boring they are positively alarming, and you can almost see the ashen faces of men who suddenly realised what a ghastly thing had happened to their party. But the book was a terrific read.

aggiunto da SigmundFraud | modificaThe Sunday Times, Christopher Hitchens (Dec 13, 2009)

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaThe New Yorker, Sam Tanenhaus (Dec 7, 2009)

For many politicians, family life is sandwiched in between long hours in public service. Palin wants us to know that for her it is the reverse. Political success is an accident that says nothing about you. Success as a wife, mother and citizen says everything.

Do I believe any of this? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that she does, and that her readers feel they are hearing an authentic voice. I find the voice undeniably authentic (yes, I know the book was written “with the help” of Lynn Vincent, but many books, including my most recent one, are put together by an editor). It is the voice of small-town America, with its folk wisdom, regional pride, common sense, distrust of rhetoric (itself a rhetorical trope), love of country and instinctive (not doctrinal) piety.

aggiunto da susanaudrey | modificaNew York Times, Stanley Fish (Dec 7, 2009)

Would I recommend reading Going Rogue? Yes, definitely, regardless of your political point of view. Liberals, conservatives and independents should read everything by office seekers of the past -- and, maybe, the future.

aggiunto da susanaudrey | modificaHuntington News Network, David M. Kinchen (Nov 30, 2009)

In Going Rogue, geography is both destiny and distortion. Wasilla is the centre of the universe, then there's the big city of Juneau, then Russia, and then, way on the other side of the Earth, is Washington DC. Washington is a foreign country to Sarah Palin. As for genuine foreign policy or diplomacy? Simply not on her radar. Yes, her son is in the military, but Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East – all these float like a singular symbol rather than real places on the planet. "Our boys" go off to "distant lands" that she leaves undescribed: invisible worlds whose only function in this book is to toughen said boys into men and to deliver them back as heroes, martyrs, deer-hunters and, yes, patriots. She relates her most interesting life and her great achievements from a simple background. She is admirable.

aggiunto da SigmundFraud | modificaThe Observer, Patricia Williams (Nov 29, 2009)

In Palin's snug and self-satisfied world, hockey and basketball matter more than global warming or the spread of nuclear weapons, and a man is judged by his vehicles. (She says of Todd, whom she met in high school: "Not only was he one of the only kids in town who owned his own ride – he owned two, the Mustang and a 1973 Ford F-150 long-bed pickup that he used to haul a pair of Polaris snowmachines.") In the course of more than 400 breathless pages, one learns enough to shudder at the thought of President Palin.

aggiunto da kidzdoc | modificaThe Guardian, Jay Parini (Nov 28, 2009)

The first half of "Going Rogue" is devoted to Palin's life before becoming famous, the second to settling scores with the McCain advisers and with a "Washington-New York media constellation" that she regards as biased and cruel.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bill Lambrecht (Nov 22, 2009)

One critic described Palin as being "ungrateful" to the McCain campaign. Why? Because in her book Palin returns fire on the anonymous campaign strategists who called her a "diva" and "whackjob" to eager reporters. What was she supposed to do? Play the role of the orphan Oliver Twist and ask, "Please, sir, I want some more"?

aggiunto da susanaudrey | modificaWashington Post, Matthew Continetti (Nov 17, 2009)

Sarah Palin is selling a personality, not a platform. That's not dumb. She's doing the best she can with what she has to work with. She quotes her father's line upon her resignation this summer as Alaska's governor: "Sarah's not retreating, she's reloading." On evidence of this book, Sarah Palin is charging toward 2012 shooting blanks.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaNational Public Radio, Rod Dreher (Nov 17, 2009)

Maybe in their business lives, conservatives are the stern, unforgiving masters of capitalist lore. But when it comes to politics, oh, do they love a whiner!

aggiunto da dcozy | modificaWall Street Journal, Thomas Frank (Nov 17, 2009)

"Going Rogue" is so obviously a campaign biography that a reader comes away trying to figure out what he thinks of Palin's presidential chances rather than what he thinks of her.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaLos Angeles Times, Tim Rutten (Nov 17, 2009)

Her critique of the [McCain] campaign's strategy is about as sophisticated as her discussion of policy, and just as circumscribed by her own experience.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaThe Washington Post, Anne Marie Cox (Nov 17, 2009)

"Through it all, Mrs. Palin emerges as a new style of feminist: a politician who took on the Ole Boy network and won; a wife with a supportive husband whose career takes second place to hers; and a mother who, unlike working women of an earlier age, isn’t shy about showcasing her family responsibilities. She writes with sensitivity and affection about her gay college roommate, and she confesses her anguish when she found out that she was carrying a baby with Down syndrome. That experience, she says, helped her to understand why a woman might be tempted to have an abortion. This is not the prejudiced, dim-witted ideologue of the popular liberal imagination."

aggiunto da susanaudrey | modificaWall Street Journal, Melanie Kirkpatrick (Nov 16, 2009)

“Going Rogue” is part cagey spin job, part earnest autobiography, part payback hit job. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with Ms. Palin’s life in Alaska and her family.

aggiunto da Shortride | modificaThe New York Times, Michiko Kakutani (Nov 15, 2009)

A more hateful book won't be published in 2009. Palin spends the bulk of Rogue smearing her critics—an opponent is dismissed as a crazy woman obsessed with falafel, and Katie Couric is an opportunist who manipulated Palin's interviews into incoherence. She twice accuses the Obama campaign of stealing its "change" theme from her early Alaskan campaigns (unsurprisingly, she doesn't mention hope). When she discovers that her last son has Down syndrome, she seems most thrilled that she has a personal object lesson against pro-choicers. (Palin also proudly, and literally, uses her daughter Piper as a pro-life poster child.)

There is not one shred of that great conservative ideal, personal responsibility, in Going Rogue. When she's not wielding her children as clubs to prove political points (or complaining that the media can't stop writing about her children), Palin whines about her victimhood—at the hands of the press, McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt (who, she passive-aggressively notes, couldn't refrain from swearing in front of her children), and liberals—until the very end.

aggiunto da ShelfMonkey | modificaThe Stranger, Paul Constant

Palin displays virtually no introspection. When McCain asks her to run, she says, ''I certainly didn't think, Well, of course this would happen. But neither did I think, What an astonishing idea. It seemed more comfortable than that, a natural progression.'' Wait a minute: Moving swiftly from mayor of Wasilla to governor of Alaska to Vice President of the United States is a natural progression? I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that Palin owes readers a little more than that. Yet maybe that's naive of me. Palin has just done what almost all politicians do — delivered a mediocre, unsurprising, self-serving memoir.

aggiunto da ShelfMonkey | modificaEntertainment Weekly, Tina Jordan

Lurking behind the moaning and groaning, of course, is a sense of grievance. There’s no question the lady can hold a grudge. Were she ever to be elected to the highest office, after the first playing of "Hail to the Beef," her enemies might duck and run.

Or maybe not.

She can shoot, but the problem has always been, she can’t aim.

aggiunto da ShelfMonkey | modificaNew York Daily News, Sherryl Connelly

Her hymns to the outdoors are the textual equivalent of Thomas Kinkade paintings. Her tales of family life? Sticky sweet as a Cinnabon. The contrast between family and the people, and politics and the press, becomes more stark as the campaign tumbles into the crapper. McCain's “experts” do something Sarah cannot abide, and then a call from Track in Iraq, or quip from Piper, gives her strength to carry on.

The evil McCain operatives smoke and swear and scheme. They will not let her talk about Obama pallin' around with terrorists. They will not let her see the people. They will not let her try to save Michigan. She cannot even jog. Those elitists sold her a bill of goods. They were never going to let Sarah be Sarah! There was nowhere else to go but rogue.

aggiunto da ShelfMonkey | modificaThe Globe and Mail, Laura Penny

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Sarah Palin	—	autore primario	tutte le edizioni	calcolato
Vincent, Lynn	—	autore secondario	tutte le edizioni	confermato

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