"Going Rouge Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare is a collection of essays about Sarah Palin with a spoof title and book cover design intended to lampoon Palin's memoir """". It was released on November 17, 2009. Both books feature Palin on the front in red, but ""Going Rouge"" has her against a backdrop of black thunder clouds and lightning, instead of the blue sky and white clouds on her memoir. The anthology, according to its publisher ""OR Books"", provides a political counterpoint and addresses Palin's background, her rise to prominence, and ""the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to"
"""The interview speaks for itself"". The book received a variety of reviews. Conservative radio talk show host John Ziegler praised ""Going Rogue"" as ""the best book and greatest literary achievement by a political figure in my lifetime"" and as showing honesty ""the type of which can only come from someone incredibly courageous, grounded, and self-aware"". Republican radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh called the book ""truly one of the more substantive policy books I've read"". Stanley Fish, writing for ""The New York Times"" Opinionator blog, explained that ""while I wouldn’t count myself a fan in the sense of being a"
"supporter, I found [the book] compelling and very well done"". ""The Wall Street Journal""s Melanie Kirkpatrick described the book as ""more a personal memoir than a political one"", which demonstrated that Palin ""is not the prejudiced, dim-witted ideologue of the popular liberal imagination"". However, Kirkpatrick criticized the book as ""too gentle"" on the McCain campaign staffers and McCain himself, and as spending too little time discussing political issues. Critic Michiko Kakutani, writing for ""The New York Times"", characterized ""Going Rogue"" as ""part earnest autobiography, part payback hit job"", noting that it was more critical of the McCain campaign than it"
"memoir ""Going Rogue"", in addition to the book on which the film was based. The main cast was announced in March 2011, starting with Julianne Moore as Palin, Ed Harris as John McCain, with Woody Harrelson, who plays McCain campaign chair Steve Schmidt, coming aboard soon thereafter. The film was primarily shot in Maryland, along with a hotel scene shot in Wilmington, Delaware. The film was also shot and produced in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The film premiered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. on March 8 prior to its public debut on HBO on March 10, 2012."
"criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them"", equating the accusations of her role in the shooting to a ""blood libel"". Her response sparked a fiery debate attracting support and criticism. An ABC News-""Washington Post"" poll found that 46% of respondents viewed Palin's response unfavorably, 30% approved and 24% had no opinion. In November 2009, Palin released her memoir, ""Going Rogue: An American Life"", in which she details her private and political career, including her resignation as Governor of Alaska. Palin said she took the title from the phrase 'gone rogue' used by"
"2009, and was number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for six consecutive weeks. As of January 21, 2010, it was #4 on the New York Times best seller list after 9 weeks in the Top 10. According to campaign records, late in 2009, Palin used $63,000 of donations from SarahPAC, her political action committee, to purchase copies of her book, ""Going Rogue"". The expenditures were listed as, ""books for fundraising donor fulfillment"". Meghan Stapleton, Palin's spokeswoman, stated the purchased books were autographed and awarded to donors contributing more than $100 to Palin's PAC. A team of"
"life as a candidate for national office. The book is written in a personal tone similar to Palin's manner of speaking. Palin discusses the disagreements she had with campaign advisers of her running mate John McCain, criticizes the national media, and talks about the importance of religion and family life. The ""Going Rogue"" part of the title refers to criticism leveled at Palin by McCain campaign advisers that she was straying from their carefully crafted message and publicly disagreeing with McCain on several issues. The subtitle, ""An American Life"", mirrors the title of President Ronald Reagan's 1990 autobiography. The book"
"was available for pre-order between $9 and $10 during a price war among online retailers Amazon, Target.com, and Walmart.com. Dan Calabrese, writing in the ""North Star National"", called the sales ""an absolutely unprecedented performance for a non-fiction book so far in advance of its release date"". Less than two weeks after its release, sales of the book exceeded the one million mark, putting it in a class with memoirs by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The print run was extended to 2.8 million copies from 1.5 million. ""Going Rogue"" attained sales of over 2.7 million by December 1,"
"Rogue (novel) Rogue is a novel by Danielle Steel, published by Random House in June 2008. The book is Steel's seventy-fifth best selling novel. Maxine Williams is a well-known and leading child psychiatrist, specializing in trauma and suicide, with three amazing children Daphne, Jack and Sam and a rich and glamorous ex-husband. Blake Williams, one of the richest men in the world has a glamorous life of globe travelling and dating beautiful women whilst Maxine stays in Manhattan looking after their children and pursuing the career she loves.Though divorced, both are extremely affectionate to each other. Blake soon meets the"
"of essays about Palin with a spoof title and cover design similar to Palin's memoir. The paperback was released on November 17, 2009, the same day that Palin's own hardback """" was released. Both books feature Palin on the front in red, but ""Going Rouge: An American Nightmare"" has her against a backdrop of black thunder clouds and lightning, instead of the blue sky with clouds of her actual memoir. ""Going Rouge"" is compiled by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, two editors of the left-leaning weekly ""The Nation"", and includes essays by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Naomi Klein, Katha Pollitt and"
"as a contributor for the ""Wall Street Journal"" and a political analyst for Fox News. Rove was an informal advisor to 2008 Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, and donated $2,300 to his campaign. His memoir, ""Courage and Consequence"", was published in March 2010. One advance reviewer, Dana Milbank of ""The Washington Post"", said of the book that Rove ""revives claims discredited long ago"". The controversial book has inspired a grassroots rock and roll compilation of a similar name Courage and Consequence that was released a week before the memoir. On March 9, 2008, Rove appeared at the University of Iowa"
"the publisher for long legs of the journey. In addition to the book tour, a web-based campaign directed ads for the book to people searching for Palin's name on Google. Palin also used her Facebook page (accessible to non-subscribers) to promote her book. ""Going Rogue"" has inspired a number of parodies and satirical interpretations. Roy Edroso of the ""Village Voice"" ""reviewed"" the book by writing fake excerpts. TA Frank of ""The Guardian"" similarly parodied the contents with a faux first draft, complete with fake notes between Palin and her editors. Cartoonist Julie Sigwart and radio host Michael Stinson released a"
"""I wrote the book,"" he said in a 2012 bookstore appearance, ""because I am a concerned citizen."" Since the publication of his book, Lofgren has appeared in various news media, discussing a number of issues regarding the Republican Party and current American politics. Lofgren's second book, ""The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government"", was published on January 5, 2016. Mike Lofgren Mike Lofgren is an American author and a former Republican U.S. Congressional aide. He retired in May 2011 after 28 years as a Congressional staff member. His writings, critical of politics"
"in Healing the Trauma of War"", in which he wrote about confronting (during seven months solitary of an eleven-month confinement) a case of post-traumatic stress disorder, incurred from observing the Tet Offensive of 1968 as a child in Saigon, South Vietnam. He has provided consulting services on PTSD, as well as lecturing on the hunting of feral pigs. June 2011, he became a weekly columnist for Human Events, focusing on the United States Constitution and the 2nd Amendment. Cork Graham Frederick Graham (born November 29, 1964), who writes under the name Cork Graham, is an American author of political thriller"
"current independent releases. He has written several books, including a biography of the Gaelic rock band Runrig, a whisky travelogue called ""Spirit of Adventure"", and several critically acclaimed novels. A spy novel called ""Serpentine"" was published in the UK in 2009 and in the US and Canada the following year. For many years, he worked as a print journalist, as a columnist with the ""Daily"" and ""Sunday Express"", ""Scotland on Sunday"", ""The Big Issue in Scotland"", ""The Shetland Times"", and as a staff reporter with national newspaper ""The Scotsman"". He was the first non-DC Thomson employee to script the legendary"
"series ""Being Mary Jane."" She won a 2016 NAACP Image Award for her work on the show. She is a 2014 recipient of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group fellowship. As of 2018 she is a Columnist for The Daily Beast and writer for the television series ""Black Lightning."" She is a regular contributor to ""Left, Right & Center"" on NPR affiliate KCRW. She served as a producer on the documentary Reversing Roe, which aired on Netflix in September 2018 after debuting at the Telluride Film Festival. A native of Missouri City, Texas, Goff graduated from Elkins High School. She"
"Cliff Schecter Clifford D. ""Cliff"" Schecter (born 1971) is an American political writer, commentator, and operative. Schecter is considered to be a political progressive and wrote a book highly critical of 2008 Republican Presidential nominee John McCain; he has a reputation as a proponent of progressive politics and policies. Schecter is married and lives with his wife and family in Columbus, Ohio. Schecter was born and raised in New York City. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he became politically active as a progressive and worked on his first political campaigns. He graduated in 1994 with distinction with a"
"writing. His pseudonym comes from James Hogg's ""Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner"", a Scottish gothic horror novel. Robert Wringham Robert Wringham (born Robert Westwood on 28 November 1982) is a British writer, best known as the editor of ""New Escapologist"" magazine. His collection, ""A Loose Egg"", was shortlisted for the 2015 Leacock Medal. Wringham is the founder of ""New Escapologist,"" a lifestyle magazine that ran from 2007 to 2017. The magazine advocated escape from the daily grind and notable features included work by or interviews with Alain de Botton, Will Self, Richard Herring, Ewan Morrison, Tom Hodgkinson,"
"for the Leadership Institute, a nonprofit conservative training organization, for which he organized and led workshops around the United States. In March 2007, Lewis was one of two bloggers invited on John McCain's campaign tour bus on a visit to New Hampshire for an interview with the candidate. That September, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich acknowledged in an interview with Lewis that he was considering a presidential run. Lewis is the editor of ""The Quotable Rogue: The Ideals of Sarah Palin in Her Own Words"", published in 2011. Lewis was selected as a ""Rising Star of Politics"" by"
"Known and Unknown: A Memoir Known and Unknown: A Memoir is an autobiographical book by Donald Rumsfeld, an American politician and businessman who served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 and again from 2001 to 2006 (among many other positions). He published it through Penguin Group USA in February 2011. It covers a variety of his experiences such as working as a Republican in the U.S. House in the late-1960s, serving in the Ford Administration during the Watergate and Vietnam crises, and serving during the George W. Bush Administration through the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay scandals. Rumsfeld"
"Lorian Hemingway Lorian Hemingway (born December 15, 1951) is an American author and free-lance journalist. Her books include the memoir ""Walk on Water"", the novel ""Walking Into the River"", and the non-fiction book ""A World Turned Over"", about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966. Her articles have appeared in ""GQ"", ""The New York Times Magazine"", ""Esquire"", ""The Seattle Times"", ""Seattle Post-Intelligencer"", and ""Rolling Stone"". In 1992, Hemingway was nominated for The Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Fiction for her debut novel ""Walking Into the River"". In 1999 she received"
"Richard Stengel Richard Allen ""Rick"" Stengel (born May 2, 1955) is an American editor, journalist and author. He was ""Time"" magazine's 16th managing editor from 2006 to 2013. He was also chief executive of the National Constitution Center from 2004 to 2006, and served as President Obama's Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2014 to 2016. Stengel has written a number of books, including a collaboration with Nelson Mandela on Mandela's autobiography, ""Long Walk to Freedom"". Stengel is currently an on-air analyst at MSNBC, a strategic advisor at Snap Inc., and a Distinguished Fellow at"
"family situation."" In 2016 Bongino said the move was due to his wife's health condition (lupus) and to be closer to her mother. Dan Bongino Daniel John Bongino (born December 4, 1974) is a conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent. Bongino is a member of the Republican Party and has unsuccessfully run for Congress on three occasions. Bongino is known for his staunchly pro-Donald Trump commentary and for his criticism of Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. In 2013, Bongino published a book critical of the Barack Obama administration where Bongino claimed to have had"
"are underway for editions in Brazil, China, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Estonia and Poland. It was named by ""Foreign Policy"" magazine as one of the 25 books to read in 2013. John Sweeney in ""The Literary Review"" called the book ""a well-considered and painfully fair epitaph"" but said it was encumbered with respect for chavistas' aspirations. Rory Carroll Rory Carroll (born 1972) is an Irish journalist working for ""The Guardian"" who has reported from, among other locations, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and Latin America. He is currently based in Los Angeles as US West Coast correspondent for ""The Guardian"". His book"
"Lawrence Wright Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American author, screenwriter, staff writer for ""The New Yorker"" magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book """". Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show ""My Trip to Al-Qaeda"" and his book ""Going Clear"". Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas, in 1965 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame"
"Mike Lofgren Mike Lofgren is an American author and a former Republican U.S. Congressional aide. He retired in May 2011 after 28 years as a Congressional staff member. His writings, critical of politics in the United States and in particular The Republican Party, were published after his retirement and garnered widespread attention. Lofgren has a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of Akron. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study European history at the University of Bern and the University of Basel in Switzerland. He also completed the strategy and policy curriculum at the Naval War College."
"in 2005, and is survived by his mother, Lucianne. Jonah Goldberg Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative syndicated columnist, author, and political analyst and commentator. Goldberg has written about politics and culture for the ""Los Angeles Times"", where he is a weekly opinion columnist, and ""National Review"", where he is a senior editor. Goldberg is the author of ""Liberal Fascism"", which became a #1 ""New York Times"" bestseller shortly after its release in January 2008, ""The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas,"" released in 2012, and ""Suicide of the West"","
"Party Going Party Going is a 1939 novel by British writer Henry Green (real name Henry Vincent Yorke). It tells the story of a group of wealthy people travelling by train to a house party. Due to a fog, however, the train is much delayed and the group takes rooms in the adjacent large railway hotel. All the action of the story takes place in the hotel. Frank Kermode maintained in his essay ""The Genesis of Secrecy"" that behind the realistic plot of this novel there is a complex web of mythical images, the most important being the figure of"
"became a ""New York Times"" Best Seller. His later ""Unit Omega"" books were written under the name pen name Jim Grand. He then began writing further military suspense novels under his own name, such as ""Tempest Down"", ""Dead Rising"", and ""Rogue Angel"". In October 2016, during the last days of the Donald Trump campaign, Rovin appeared on ""Hannity"", in Breitbart News and the front cover of ""Weekly World News""' parent paper, ""National Enquirer"", claiming to have been a ""fixer"" for Bill and Hillary Clinton, hiding family scandals. His allegations included that Hillary Clinton was ""bisexual"" and a ""secret sex freak"""
"""Heaven is for Real"", co-written and directed by Randall Wallace, and starring Greg Kinnear (as Todd Burpo), Kelly Reilly (as Sonja Burpo), Connor Corum (as Colton Burpo) and Margo Martindale and Thomas Haden Church. Vincent was hired by former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to be the collaborator on Palin's memoir, ""Going Rogue"". Upon release, the book immediately hit no. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Palin's memoir is one of only four political memoirs to sell more than 1 million copies, with current sales over 3 million. In addition to her other books, Vincent"
"Rowan Scarborough Rowan Scarborough is an American journalist. For two decades, Scarborough worked as a ""Washington Times"" reporter who for over two decades wrote a weekly column with fellow reporter Bill Gertz called ""Inside the Ring"" reporting on national security and defense issues. In February 2007, worked at the ""Washington Examiner"" as its national security correspondent for a few months, before returning to the ""Times"". Scarborough also writes freelance articles on national security issues for ""Human Events"" and other publications. Scarborough's books include the 2004 ""New York Times"" bestseller """" about the tenure of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in"
"of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and ""The Gulag Archipelago"" or novelists like Dumas and Arthur Koestler"", writes Larry Rohter in the ""New York Times"" Book review. Betancourt filed for divorce in 2009. As of April 2017, she was studying a PhD in Theology at Oxford. Recent documents made public through WikiLeaks tend to demonstrate that FARC commander Cesar, captured during Operation Jaque and extradited to the United States, had offered—prior to the rescue operation—to release Betancourt in exchange for money and protection. Íngrid Betancourt Ingrid Betancourt Pulecio (; born 25 December 1961) is a Colombian-French politician, former senator and anti-corruption activist, especially"
"Stephen Wright (writer) Stephen Wright (born 1946) is a novelist based in New York City known for his use of surrealistic imagery and dark comedy. His work has varied from hallucinatory accounts of war (""Meditations in Green""), a family drama among UFO cultists (""""), carnivalesque novel on a serial killer (""Going Native""), to a picaresque taking place during the Civil War (""The Amalgamation Polka""). He has taught writing courses at various universities, including Princeton University, Brown University, and The New School. ""Going Native"" was ranked #13 on Larry McCaffery's . ""Precisely that brutal hallucination we desperately wanted to end."" Don"