Read Bill Clinton’s My Life (all 957 pages) and guess what, it’s self-referential. Others grumble that Going Rogue is “self-focused” or overly “self-referential.” Pardon me for being a tad slangish, but “Duh!” “Hello!” It is, after all, an autobiography. Ironic, isn’t it, that those who claim Sarah Palin is a “judgmental Evangelical” turn around and judge her motives? Many complain that Going Rogue is “self-serving.” Such a statement is not a book review it’s a judgment of the motives of the heart. I find many of the reviews, along with the comments and criticisms of the “liberal pundits,” to be almost laughable. No surprise, given that as of December 6, 2009, it remains Amazon’s number one best seller, and perhaps the most talked about autobiography since Bill Clinton’s mammoth My Life.

Within three weeks of publication, Amazon.Com already lists 536 reviews. Reviewing Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue: An American Life must be an American pastime. Find all of Bob’s book reviews, blogs, books, and free resources at Recommended: Going Rogue offers Sarah Palin’s fast-paced, well-written, personal account of her American life from her relative obscurity in Alaska to her meteoric rise as John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate.

Reviewed By: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., LCPC, Author of Soul Physicians, Spiritual Friends, Beyond the Suffering, Sacred Friendships, and God’s Healing for Life’s Losses. The phrase has its roots in an Oct.*ISBN and Length: 978-0061997877, 413 Pages Palin mischievously embraced the phrase “going rogue” at the end of her troubled campaign for vice president on the ticket headed by Sen. Later, Palin spent several days in New York, going over the final edits.

Copy-editing and fact-checking are now underway in a race to meet the crash publishing schedule, which has been accelerated four or five months because of the huge anticipated demand.Īfter Palin left office on July 26, she went with her husband, Todd, and her children to San Diego, the home of her collaborator, Lynn Vincent, and worked on the book for several weeks. 15 for her manuscript and turned it in a bit early. The former Alaska governor has been in huge demand as a speaker, and continues to harvest a bounty of media attention.Ī mammoth first printing of 1.5 million copies has been ordered - the same first run as “True Compass,” the memoir of the late Sen. 17 in order to catch the holiday book-buying season. Publication is being moved up from spring to Nov.

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