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Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin
Beginning with Palin's birth in Sandpoint, Idaho, and her family's move to Skagway and then Wasilla, Alaska, Trailblazer details the difficulties of growing up in Alaska, Sarah Palin's early successes as a basketball star and a beauty pageant contestant, and the story of her elopement with Todd Palin, whom she met at Wasilla High. It describes her career as a broadcast jou...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
February 17th 2009
by Threshold Editions
(first published February 6th 2009)
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The author is an assistant editor with PEOPLE Magazine, who was sent to meet Sarah Palin and her family weeks before the announcement that she would be the vice-presidential nominee. (He really hit the jackpot when she was thrown into the limelight). Most of the book ended up being about the campaign. He addresses all the issues, criticisms, and challenges she faced during the campaign. The book paints a very favorable picture of Sarah. I just received a copy of Sarah's book "Going Rog...more
A mawkish, facile biography by an "impartial" writer who (*surprise*) manages to come up with "Aw-Shucks!" loveable moments in one of the most shocking, inexplicable rises in American politics by a self-proclaimed no-nothing. This book is about as impartial as Newt Gingrich's twitter account and about as deep/revealing as a coat of Governor Palin's nail polish.
As always when I read such things, I woinder who the readers are for whom it is intended. The self-cograt...more
As always when I read such things, I woinder who the readers are for whom it is intended. The self-cograt...more
Worth reading because of the author-- a real journalist who does not push certain values as much as other authors. I felt I learned more about her motivation (from God, whose desire it is that she become President) and her actions (all designed to attain that goal, and not to learn more about much else) than from any other source so far.
You know, for "know thy enemy" reasons. Already a pretty awful book - imagine a People magazine author writing the biography of a person whose life history is pretty underwhelming. He seems to have interviewed her parents for the bulk of her early life, and the number of inane, useless details is staggering. He also quotes other Palin biographies - crackerjack journalism there. And yet, I press on.
I read this in one sitting. It was interesting, non-partisan, and easy to read. The only drawback: it's a bit dated now, having been published two years ago.
I didn't learn anything that I didn't know already from the overkill the MSM did to vet her. I voted 3rd party, so this book was way too late to matter.
I have to admit I am interested in her. Not because I believe in a lot of her politics but mostly because she's a woman It was an interesting read.
It was interesting to learn more about Sarah Palin.
A fantastically in-depth portrait of one of the time's most fascinating figures. Sarah Palin is someone I greatly admire, and this biography is - finally - a accurate and deserving account of her life and accomplishments.
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