The Rogue, Joe McGinniss
The Rogue, Joe McGinniss
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The Rogue
Searching for the Real Sarah Palin

Author: Joe McGinniss

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2011


Synopsis

Just in time for the kickoff of the 2012 presidential campaign, Joe McGinniss, the author of the classic account of the packaging of a presidential candidate, The Selling of the President, of the acclaimed search for the essence of Alaska, Going to Extremes, and of the bestselling study of the dark family secrets of an American patriarch, Fatal Vision, presents his already controversial investigative chronicle of Sarah Palin as an individual, politician, and cultural phenomenon.

Based on McGinniss’s on-the-ground reporting that began in late 2008 (which yielded an April 2009 Conde Nast Portfolio cover story) and continued with his return to Alaska in 2010, this book is a startling and penetrating examination of the illusion and reality of Palin--and a probing look at the Alaska and the America that have produced her, and the country she feels she is destined to lead. The Rogue delves deeply into Alaska’s political and business affairs and Palin’s political, personal, and family life to chronicle how and to what extent Palin and her beliefs, attitudes, and outlook will influence and even change life in America and the perception of America abroad.

About The Author

Joe McGinniss is the author of eleven previous books, including The Selling of the President, Going to Extremes, Fatal Vision, Blind Faith, Cruel Doubt, and The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. He lives in Massachusetts with the writer and editor Nancy Doherty.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on March 16, 2019

Don't believe what they say in “the lamestream media”--this is a well-written, interesting and moral book. “Serious" people like Howie Kurtz and Steve (AKA “Mr. Cokie”) Roberts have criticized it for being unethical (because of its many anonymous sources) and unprofessional (for the way McGinnis int......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 05, 2012

I admit it....I gave this book 5 stars because I loathe Sarah Palin, and Joe McGinnis completely trashes her, with the help of quite a few other people who are more than willing to go on record and tell what happened from their point of view. The entire time I was reading it, I was saying to myself,......more

Goodreads review by Travis on October 02, 2011

This is the second Sarah Palin book I've read this year, the first being Geoffrey Dunn's The Lies of Sarah Palin. There really is little in McGinniss's book that was not already covered in Dunn's book other than some salacious details like Palin's fling with basketball star Glenn Rice or Todd and Sa......more

Goodreads review by Picklefactory on October 09, 2011

Simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. Joe is a fine writer: his exasperation with being subjected to baseless slurs in the national media after returning to Alaska to investigate the Palin phenomenon only really shines through once or twice. (I went and looked a couple of these up and yup, happen......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 29, 2012

Joe McGinniss, whose Fatal Vision was a masterpiece of true crime writing, has written a compulsively readable book about the phenomenon known as Sarah Palin and about the phenomenal shift between admiring statesmen (and women) and worshiping at the altar of personality, where "presidential" no long......more


Quotes

“Plunging into a subject without wearing blinders is an engaging investigative method, and McGinniss, as he always manages to do, pushes the story forward in momentum while continuing to link new material with bits of information from past experiences and interviews. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer