On Saturday, December 12th, at 1:00 p.m. Alaska time, the blog firedoglake (where I occasionally write) will host a book salon session with Richard Kim and Colin Robinson, the editor and publisher of the new book about the Crazy Woman, titled Going Rouge: Sarah Palin - An American Nightmare.The book has chapters by Alaskans Jeanne Devon (AK Muckraker), Elston Lauesen and Shannyn Moore. Additionally, there are several chapters written by national or international reporters who came up to Alaska in 2008, and were provided assistance by Alaska's progressive blogging community.
Essentially, the book is a large collection of articles and essays about aspects of why Palin is an American nightmare. Here is the Table of Contents:
Introduction
Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
1/Picking Palin
The GOP’s Gift to America
Beauty and the Beast
JoAnn Wypijewski
The Insiders: How John McCain Came to Pick Sarah Palin
Jane Mayer
Palin: Wrong Woman, Wrong Message
Gloria Steinem
2/Half-Baked Alaska
Palin’s Real Record
Meet Sarah Palin’s Radical Right-Wing Pals
Max Blumenthal and David Neiwert
Palin’s Party: Her Religious Right Roots
Michelle Goldberg
Our Polar Bears, Ourselves
Mark Hertsgaard
Palin’s Petropolitics
Michael T. Klare
Northern Exposure: Sarah Palin’s Toxic Paradise
Sheila Kaplan and Marilyn Berlin Snell
Why Troopergate Matters
John Nichols
Examining Palin’s Record on Violence Against Women
Brentin Mock
Palin Enthusiastically Practices Socialism, Alaska-Style
Elstun Lauesen
Letter from the Other Alaska
Shannyn Moore
The Ugly Irony of Going Rogue
Jeanne Devon
3/Palintology
Selected Palinisms
Compiled by Sebastian Jones
Palin’s Prevarications
Compiled by Sebastian Jones
Palin’s Top 25 Tweets
Buyer’s Remorse
The Poetry of Sarah Palin
Hart Seely
4/Lipstick on a Faux Feminist
Palin and Women
Sarah Palin, Affirmative Action Babe
Katha Pollitt
The F-Card Won’t Wash: Sarah Palin Is Disastrous for Women’s Rights
Jessica Valenti
Sarah’s Steel Ones
Amy Alexander
Sarah Palin, Mean Girl
Linda Hirshman
The “Bitch” and the “Ditz”
Amanda Fortini
5/The Palin Pageant
Sex, God, and Country First
The Elephant in the Room
Dana Goldstein
What Scarlet Letter?
Hanna Rosin
Sarah Palin’s Shotgun Politics
Gary Younge
Sarah Palin’s Frontier Justice
Patricia J. Williams
The Sexy Puritan
Tom Perrotta
The Witch-Hunter Anoints Sarah Palin
Max Blumenthal
Sarah Palin, American
Jeff Sharlet
Mad Dog Palin
Matt Taibbi
Sarah Palin’s Faux Populism
Jim Hightower
The Sarah Palin Smoke Screen
Katrina vanden Heuvel
The GOP Loves the Heartland to Death
Thomas Frank
6/Unpacking Palinism
The World According to Sarah
Capitalism, Sarah Palin–Style
Naomi Klein
Drill, Drill, Drill
Eve Ensler
Sarah Palin, Meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Juan Cole
Sarah Palin’s Nine Most Disturbing Beliefs
AlterNet Staff
7/Going Rogue
A Woman’s Right to Lose
The Sarah Palin Pity Party
Rebecca Traister
The Un-Hillary: Why Watching Sarah Palin Is Agony for Women
Emily Bazelon
Flirting Her Way to Victory
Michelle Goldberg
Sayonara, Sarah
Katha Pollitt
Lost in Translation: Why Sarah Palin Really Quit Us
Dahlia Lithwick
8/Palin’s Poison
Lingering in the Body Politic
She Broke the GOP and Now She Owns It
Frank Rich
The Losers Who Gave Us Sarah Palin
Joe Conason
Beyond the Palin
Rick Perlstein
Sarah Palin’s Death Panels
Robert Reich
How Sarah Palin Renewed American Socialism
John Nichols
Forum: What Is Sarah Palin’s Future in American Politics?
Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Amanda Marcotte, Michael Tomasky
Please not that none of these essays are by reporters or editors from the Anchorage Daily News. It is almost a compilation of the biggest series of good stories missed by a major newspaper in the history of theUnited States.
1 comment:
The editors and reporters at the ADN didn't deserve to have an article included in this, or any other Palin expose book, because they had months and years to show us Alaskans that they would treat Palin like any politician needs to be treated by the press - with actual questions and reporting of issues of importance; and on this, their one job, they have been nothing but an abysmal failure.
The ADN is what gave Palin to the State - and they are what helped give her to the nation - with their refusal to do little more than print large photo after large photo of Palin.
For much of the Alaskan and apparently American public who doesn't care to read - but just likes to look at pretty pictures, the ADN was a God send.
Yesterday when I grabbed my copy of the paper from my newspaper box, and marveled at how thin it was, I couldn't help but long for the day when they turn the lights out at the ADN for good. It will be good riddance for a journalistic paper that didn't think (still doesn't) that asking the former governor obvious questions about her many lies has merit.
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