5,798 of 7,455 people found the following review helpful: Ain't afraid of no Vietcong king, November 17, 2009 By Gen. JC Christian, patriot There are many kinds of truth. There are truths based on facts, truths based on faith, and truths based on something that sounds as if it should be true (truthiness). Then there's the kind of truth we find in Sarah's book: stories and concepts that become truths simply because she states them. She's a lot like our Lord and Savior, Glen Beck, in that respect. Sometimes, she states truths that would be considered ludicrous if uttered by someone else. Her claim that the McCain campaign forced her to spend $150,000 in RNC funds to dress her family in designer clothes is one example of that. Although it might be easier to believe that she acted like a trailer park Zsa Zsa who'd found a credit card left behind at a possum feed, she blames McCain staffers. That's good enough for us, because we have faith; we want to believe her truths. But the book isn't perfect. As much as I enjoyed the few short paragraphs in which Mrs Palin laid out her policy objectives, she could have condensed it all into one sentence: "I'm going to grab an Oxo Good Grips Stainless Serving Spatula and go all mavericky on your non-white, non-Christian and non-heterosexual butts." The book also fails to expose Mrs. Palin's intellectual brilliance and keen grasp of foreign policy issues. Why wasn't the text of her recent speech in Hong Kong included? Although it remains secret, it's rumored that she viciously rebuked the Vietcong king for his assault on the Empire State Building. That's a speech we've been waiting for nearly 75 years to hear. It's big news and should have been included. As you read other reviews of this book, please remember that Mrs. Palin has many enemies who are eager to pan her work. The Palin family's most potent nemesis, Levi's johnston, is no dpubt fully erect and ready to spew globs of misfortune upon them for a third time. And reason-adoring intellectuals are certain to point out that an interview on Good Morning Topeka doesn't qualify as a policy summit in the Far East. But a few bad reviews won't stop her. She's seen much worse from her kitchen window. It can't be pleasant to gaze upon Antichristograd every morning as you brew your coffee. My review isn't complete, but I think I'll quit anyway, because writing reviews, like governing, is just too darned hard to finish.

Going Rogue: An American Life ( ISBN 0061939897 ) is the New York Times #1 best seller by former American Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, co-written by Lynn Vincent of San Diego,^[1][2] and edited by Adam Bellow for HarperCollins.^[3] The memoir was released on November 17, 2009, and became the third political memoir in history to sell more than 1 million copies.^[4]

The book's title is a reference to a phrase that arose during the latter part of the 2008 presidential campaign.^[5] Palin embraced it after the question, "Has Sarah Palin 'gone rogue'?", appeared in the lead of an article in the magazine, Slate.^[6] The subtitle, "An American Life", is the same as the title of Ronald Reagan's 1990 autobiography.

Overview

According to Time Magazine, the book is split into five long chapters. Key areas the book focuses on include the role of faith in her life and upbringing, criticism of the national media, and refutations of accusations made by McCain staffers. No index is included in the book^[7], but online versions have been posted by several publications