The Nation preps book mocking Palin
By ANDY BARR | 10/22/09
The Nation's editors are releasing a book -- mocking Sarah Palin's memoir -- the same day as the book from the former Alaska governor goes on shelves.
Editors from the progressive magazine The Nation are pulling together a book to be released the same day as Sarah Palin’s with a similar title and cover mocking the former Alaska governor’s memoir.
The book titled “Going Rouge: Sarah Palin an American Nightmare” is edited by Richard Kim, a senior editor at the weekly magazine, along with The Nation’s Executive Editor Betsy Reed.
The book’s cover displays a picture nearly identical to the photo chosen for the cover of Palin’s own “Going Rogue: An American Life.”
In both pictures, Palin is wearing red behind a cloudy sky, though the background of “Going Rouge” is dark and gloomy with a lightning bolt come down over Palin’s left shoulder.
The book, being published by OR Books, will contain contributions from twenty-three writers including Joe Conason, Katha Pollitt, and Jim Hightower.
Both books are set to be released on Nov. 17 and pre-orders for a paperback copy of “Going Rouge” cost $10.
Kim told POLITICO that he and Reed started the project three weeks ago at the urging of his book agent.
“The cover is a parody of hers and it certainly takes some shots and mocks Sarah Palin, but it is a very serious book and the book itself is not a parody,” Kim said. “It is not at all intended as a joke or a parody.”
