Based on more than two-hundred
interviews---many of them with Republican
colleagues and one-time political allies of
Palin’s---and more than forty-thousand pages
of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles
Palin’s troubling penchant for duplicity in
grim detail, from her dysfunctional
childhood in Wasilla through her contentious
run for mayor and her failed governorship of
Alaska. He also provides the shocking inside
story of her betrayal of running mate John
McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign
and her self-serving resignation as governor
in July of the following year. Dunn deftly
places Palin in the American tradition of
right-wing demagogues---from Huey Long to
Joe McCarthy---and details her troubling
obsession with Barack Obama as it fuels her
own political ambitions and a potential run
for the presidency in 2012.
The Lies of Sarah Palin is a
journalistic tour de force that vividly
reveals the Queen of the Tea Party movement
as a vengeful and manipulative empress
without clothes. This is the definitive book
on Sarah Palin.