Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
I was naively intrigued by Sarah Palin for two reasons: 1.) Tina Fey's imitation of Palin on Saturday Night Live; and 2.) after watching the reality TV show about Sarah and her family. This curiosity to know more motivated me to want to read "Going Rogue;" but, instead, I accidentally selected this book...its title existed as merely a transposition of a few letters and a complete change of definition. This book was a compilation of factual submissions that completely changed what I thought feminism was all about, and it taught me just how little peoople care about the truth...regardless of how solid someone's reputation can be. This is one of the best books I have ever read, and I can only hope to read more (formatted and researched just like this one) pertaining to all presidential candidates. I am not looking forward to reading scandalous dirt; I simply want the proverbial political murky waters to be cleared up enough to grasp a closer-to-the-truth understanding of each candidates history and platform. Just to be very clear, R-O-U-G-E is the French word for red and generally refers to a cosmetic product (blush) in the US. That is the word in the title of this book. R-O-G-U-E is the spelling for the maverick/dishonest/mischievous word. So, this book is NOT Sarah Palin's autobiography (as one would hopefully guess by the "American Nightmare" part of the title). Because of the title spoof, at first I thought this would be a satire of Sarah Palin's book, and since there is just SO much available material, I thought it would be hilarious. It turns out the book is a collection of articles written by journalists over the Palin nomination & ensuing fiasco. A couple essays were a bit over the top or just odd, but otherwise it was really interesting. Palin will always have her admirers who don't care WHAT she does, but the fact that the GOP machine was determined to not create another Palin-fiasco in the 2012 VP candidate selection and her exclusion from the 2012 convention shows how far Palin has slipped in even the party that produced her. That's a pretty far & fast fall, but then again, this is the woman who made Katie Couric look like a hard-hitting journalists with her all-too-difficult questions about naming even a single newspaper or magazine she read regularly. You know--those hard questions.Some of the essays I found most interesting were the ones that looked at her nomination from the party standpoint. Such as: what did they actually think Palin was going to do? Did they really think that just picking a woman would pick up the Hilary supporters, and are they so detached from reality that they thought a dim-bulb like Palin would do anything except revolt Hilary's supporters? Were they just picking her because she was part of the extreme far-right, who would vote for a black guy just after they marched in a gay-rights parade? Do they not understand that the farther the GOP caters to the extremists in their party (who are going to vote the God & Guns ticket no matter what), the more they repel independents and moderates--the voters who actually determine elections. A much more interesting book than I thought it would be, and a rather scary look at what our political structure has become--and came close to being.
What do You think about Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare (2009)?
Smart, intelligent woman, too bad the press destroyed her before she even got going.
—tasunetra
I still won't vote for her. Don't trust her for some reason... Interesting, though.
—Jean
This book was nothing but Palin bashing from anyone who wanted to contribute.
—sage
I really expected something much better.
—fishermanfr
