TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dunn,Geoffrey
TI  - The lies of Sarah Palin: the untold story behind her relentless quest for power 
SN  - 9780312601867
AV  - F910.7.P35 D86 2011
U1  - 973.931092B 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Palin, Sarah,
KW  - Women governors
KW  - Alaska
KW  - Biography
KW  - Governors
KW  - Vice-Presidential candidates
KW  - United States
KW  - Presidential candidates
KW  - Deception
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1959-
KW  - 2001-2009
KW  - 2009-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-445) and index; Prologue: Political fictions : the lies of Sarah Palin -- pt. 1. Alaska. Wasilla -- Juneau -- pt. 2. America. Hail Mary -- Uncivil discourse -- Rogue -- pt. 3. Alaska. Cold comfort -- Unraveling -- pt. 4. America. The absence of fact -- Epilogue
N2  - Based on more than two-hundred interviews--many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin's--and more than forty-thousand pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles Palin's troubling penchant for duplicity in grim detail, from her dysfunctional childhood in Wasilla through her contentious run for mayor and her failed governorship of Alaska. He also provides the shocking inside story of her betrayal of running mate John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign and her self-serving resignation as governor in July of the following year. Dunn deftly places Palin in the American tradition of right-wing demagogues--from Huey Long to Joe McCarthy--and details her troubling obsession with Barack Obama as it fuels her own political ambitions and a potential run for the presidency in 2012
ER  -