Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar

Sarah from Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar

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Overview

A year after a vice presidential campaign that remains as consequential as it was controversial, Sarah Palin is still the most dynamic yet polarizing Republican in America. Now Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe draw on their experiences as embedded reporters on Palin's campaign, exclusive on-scene coverage of Palin's post-election struggles in Alaska, and revealing interviews with former McCain/Palin staffers, top political minds, and Palin's family, friends, and foes in Alaska to tell the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of her improbable rise -- and its complicated aftermath. The result is a fair and fascinating portrait of Sarah Palin and of the American political process.

Sarah from Alaska illuminates both the talents that helped make Palin a superstar and the traits that became liabilities under the intense pressures of a divisive national campaign. It reveals in riveting detail how Palin's vice presidential campaign became as dysfunctional as it was secretive, explores the circumstances behind her triumphs and baffling missteps, and provides new context for understanding her values, her political successes in Alaska, and her abrupt resignation from the governorship.

"It's easy to turn Sarah Palin into a caricature of either a heroic everywoman or ridiculous dolt," the authors say, "but the truth is that she is more complex than either her most passionate defenders or harshest critics give her credit for." Palin remains ambitious and enormously popular among social conservatives, and her future will be intrinsically interwoven with that of the Republican Party as it struggles to redefine itself and recapture the necessary margin for national political victory in the next decade. That makes Sarah from Alaska essential reading for anyone interested in American politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781586489045
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 11/02/2010
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 9.20(w) x 11.80(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Scott Conroy is the co-creator and executive producer of Embeds on Verizon's Go90 platform. Previously, he worked with Vice to launch its nightly news show on HBO. He is coauthor of Sarah from Alaska and created and directed New Hampshire, a seven-part Huffington Post original documentary series about life on the 2016 trail. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottFConroy

Shushannah Walshe was a reporter and producer at the Fox News Channel until 2008. She is currently a freelance journalist whose work has appeared on NY1, the Daily Beast, Salon, CBSNews.com, and elsewhere. Walshe lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Lights Out 1

1 Frozen Paths 23

2 Seeing Red 41

3 Honeymoon in Juneau 59

4 Sharp Elbows 77

5 Plucked 91

6 The Iron Curtain 123

7 Taking the Reins 145

8 The Final Limp 169

9 Can't Let Go 193

10 Only in Alaska 217

11 Alaska Outgrown 233

12 The Next Chapter 259

Acknowledgments 281

Sources 285

Index 293

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