Score: 3 / 5
Category: Political Insider, Tell-All Memoir
Recommended
My Thoughts: I bought this on a whim at Target. I figured it would be a fun read. To be fair, I was kinda bored with my "legal" books and I wanted something a little trashier. I figured a book about Sarah Palin could certainly fill that need.
I was not disappointed. This book is a traditional "Tell-All" memoir. It reveals the terrifying, emotionally unbalanced Sarah Palin that we all knew was there (well at least those of us curious enough to look past her charming demeanor or smart enough to despise the concept of "folksy"). Through chapter after chapter, the authors absolutely destroy Sarah Palin, but they do so without uttering much of their own words. The story is bolstered almost entirely by email conversations (often heavily edited, so, to be fair, its possible they are not as crazy as they sounds in the book). In the emails Sarah is portrayed as an emotional disaster, prone to outbursts, often ungrateful, and always unstable. More than once she threatens to quit in a vain effort to get her staff to coddle her, and her "Palin-bots" (as the authors refer to themselves) eagerly comply. On more than one occasion we are introduced to incredibly unethical behavior that was swept under the rug while she maintained an image of anti-corruption.
And all of this is coming from someone who remains a staunch Conservative. Mr. Bailey talks god and conservative principles none stop in this book. He is clearly as staunch a conservative as he has ever been. This is not someone who converted and is now attacking his old boss. This is someone who spent years as a Palin-Punching-Bag, and finally saw her for who she really is; a crazy, mentally unstable, crazy person. The God references get old for those who don't believe in that kind of thing, but it further reinforces the fact that this is an extreme conservative calling Palin out (Not a liberal, not a moderate, not even a moderate conservative). In short, once you get over the "glittering generalities" and see Ms. Palin for who she is, even the most hardcore conservatives will realize how bad she is for this country.
This book is almost scary. How a person like this almost became the Vice-President of the United States, is unfathomable. It is a slap in the face to anyone who wants our public figures to have any clue about what they are doing. We almost elected a personality not only without substance, but possibly mentally unstable. This book doesn't reveal anything we shouldn't have already known, but it exposes a side of our almost VP that should be terrifying to every American.
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