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Title:

Going rouge : Sarah Palin : an American nightmare / edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed.

Publisher:

OR Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

335 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Palin, Sarah,--1964---Public opinion.
Palin, Sarah,--1964---Political and social views.
Palin, Sarah,--1964---Ethics.
Women governors--Alaska--Biography.
Vice-Presidential candidates--United States--Biography.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Alaska--Politics and government--1959-
Conservatives--Women--United States.
Women politicians--United States.
Women--Political activity--United States--Case studies.
Beauty, Personal--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
Public opinion--United States.

Other Authors:

Kim, Richard C. C.
Reed, Betsy, 1968-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction / Richard Kim and Betsy Reed -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

ISBN:

0984295003 (pbk.)
9780984295005 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)471514559

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)