Sarah Palin's best seller, GOING ROGUE, is a personal account of the Alaska native who gained national attention by her selection to run on the McCain Presidential ticket as the vice presidential offering.  Her warm, motherly charm and self discipline reveal a rugged lady who carved out a life in a cold wilderness.  She loves her family, the Alaska outdoors and Ronald Reagan.  Not necessareily in that order. Her folksy connection to  middle America is often contrasted to her disdain for liberals, journalists and Democrats.  Sarah is the kind of woman who would shuffle between raising a family, serving as governor in a huge state so remote most citizens have limited access to the capital, and training to run marathon races all in the same day.
     Through the dim light of an Alaskan winter, Sarah sees all of reality through the eyes of the narrow view of history offered by Ronald Reagan and his adherents. She even believes Reagan saved the country's face after Jimmy Carter let the nation down by his inabaility to free hostages in Iran.  She appers to have little awareness of the fact that history records now that behind the scenes Reagan offered a ransom for the hostages in contrast to a national policy that claims to refuse terrorist demands.  Sarah writes that single handedly Reagan ended the cold war without firing a shot.  She also believes it was the evil ACLU that banned prayer from the public square according to the book.
     Mrs. Palin has little use for most journalists, especially the scheming Katie Couric.  Her preference for media is clear in the work.  She snuck in phone calls to her favorite news people namely Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and Bill OReilly.  She agrees with this crowd of talk show hosts that the so-called Fairness Doctrine, is an attempt to limit free speech.  Sarah claims her famous interview with Couric was biased and Katie ambushed her.  Apparently asking Sarah what magazines she read was a loaded question.
     Palin's view on Democrats is summed up in her statement regarding the political party.  "Generally speaking, after decades of failed social policies and weak national security positions, the party doesn't have a strong base of success from which to win political arguments.  So it targets people instead of ideas." pg. 264    She ends her work claiming she became one of those targets. What the Democrats did to Newt Gingrich they later did to her...accuse both of them of ethics violations with no basis.
     Sarah Palin ends here 395 page book with some short solutions for what real citizens who love the country can do. They must stand up, fight and throw Tea Parties.
     The governor did report Rick Warren tried to get in touch with her by phone during the campaign.  She did not seek him out.  There is little if any mention of ministers who she had contact with in the book. The few mentioned are not given to being much more than a nuisance.  She is apparently a woman of great faith.  You will not find connections to the Religious Right in the book.
     Sarah's title is "Going Rogue".   "Rogue", I assume, is a slang term for an animal that wanders apart from the herd.  Her claim to wander on her own is her own undoing.  She complains in the book about the treatment she received from "headquarters".  This is the McCain campaign staff. She states they forced her and family to dress in expensive clothes.  This led to unfair criticism from the press.  They not only dressed her, but told here when to go out and whom to call.  She was told where to stand and which family members could be on stage with her.  She was given scripts on what to say at debates.  She records that many of the answers she rehearsed did not even answer the question.  She regrets allowing herself to be regulated by this invisible organization.  She now concedes it was a huge mistake to be forced to comply with the staff who sought to take away the individual contributions she could have made.  In claiming by her title to be a "rogue", she became here own worst compromise.  She also regrets she never bucked this team of experts who actually might have cost McCain the election.  Sarah's adoration for McCain is obvious.  She considers him her own personal war hero and found him without flaw.  It is rathering interesting that she never connected the dots to understand that the man holding strings to headquarters was her own hero.
     Sarah found the warm Arizona desert a great place to jog.  Whether or not she decides to leave the cold dark nights of Alaska to travel to the lower 48 to engage in another kind of running is subject to debate.  My guess from the book is that she has had enough.  Recent attention might cause her to consider it again.