Going rouge
Subtitle: Sarah Palin : an American nightmare
By: edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780984295005
Subjects: Public opinion; Political and social views; Ethics; Women governors; Biography; Vice-Presidential candidates; Politics and government; Conservatives; Women politicians; Women; Political activity; Personal Beauty; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Other titles: Sarah Palin
Description: Essays on Sarah Palin. Title is a parody on the Sarah Palin book: Going rogue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Kim and Betsy Reed; title: Picking Palin: the GOP's gift to America. Beauty and the beast / JoAnne Wypijewski ; The insiders: How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin / Jane Mayer ; Palin: wrong woman, wrong message / Gloria Steinem; title: Half-baked Alaska: Palin's real record. Meet Sarah Palin's radical right-wing pals / Max Blumenthal, 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, 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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 Tomansky.