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An Intimate Biography Of Sarah Palin
Threshold Editions
February 2009
On Sale: February 17, 2009
Featuring: Sarah Palin
256 pages
ISBN: 1439142343
EAN: 9781439142349
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
She's a real-life American success story. A small-town girl
who wasn't content to keep things small. In 1996, Sarah
Palin was a city councilwoman who had set her sights on
becoming mayor, despite unwelcome advice that as the mother
of three young children, she might not have a whole lot of
success in a political career. She proved any naysayer wrong
in a hurry. Ten years later, by 2006, she was the youngest governor
Alaska had ever had...and the first woman. Now, still only
in her mid-forties and the mother of five, she is one of the
best-known women in American politics. People magazine assistant editor Lorenzo Benet met with
Sarah Palin and her family just weeks before the
announcement that she would be the Republican
vice-presidential nominee. He spoke in depth with Governor
Palin; with her husband, Todd, the "First Dude," as he
likes to call himself; with her children; and with other
members of her extended family. Now, in a fascinating book, Benet uses skills honed as a
longtime professional writer and the author of several
biographies to present the intimate portrait of Sarah Palin
that America has been looking for. 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 journalist and young
mother, and gives details on her move to the political arena
that has culminated in making her a household name. From
staff firings in Wasilla to her controversies with the
Alaska Oil and Gas Commission, from her support of Todd
Palin's snow machine races to her own love for moose and
caribou hunting and salmon fishing, and culminating with the
almost manic excitement of the 2008 election, Lorenzo Benet
has built up a detailed picture of a fascinating and
extraordinarily complex woman -- an introduction to a Sarah
Palin that the world is only just coming to know.
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