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This will be the first full-scale and in-depth political biography of America's most polarising figure. Based on more than two-hundred interviews - many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin's - and more than forty-thousand pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles Palin's troubling penchant for duplicity in grim detail, from her dysfunctional childhood in Wasilla through her contentious run for mayor and her failed governorship of Alaska. He also provides the shocking inside story of her betrayal of running mate John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign and her self-serving resignation as governor in July of the following year. Dunn deftly places Palin in the American tradition of right-wing demagogues - from Huey Long to Joe McCarthy - and details her troubling obsession with Barack Obama as it fuels her own political ambitions and a potential run for the presidency in 2012. The Lies of Sarah Palinis a journalistic tour de force that vividly reveals the Queen of the Tea Party movement as a vengeful and manipulative empress without clothes. This is the definitive book on Sarah Palin. 'Geoffrey Dunn's exposé reads like a novel. It is a triumph of investigative journalism.' - Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker), managing editor, The Mudflats 'Anyone looking for a lively and thorough account of the Palin phenomenon will be well rewarded.' - Publishers Weekly Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Want examples? Check the hardcover edition, page 105, which proffers "doublejeopardy" as a legal term. doublejeopardy, one word. And on page 256, there is a typo regarding Jim Barnett that is obvious and clunky and not at all suspicious, just careless. There are others (wrung instead of rung) but I forbear.
I can't necessarily fault Mr. Dunn for this. It's probably just curmudgeonly of me, because in the olden days, careful copy-editing was a respected job, and one that I might have worked at, except for these is modern times and we don't need no copy editors on account of we have Spellcheck.
Okay. Aside from all that, I consider this book to be thoughtful, detailed, uncomfortably insightful regarding the state of our nation, and well worth reading. It really ought to have had a less strident title, though. ( )