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Unlikely LIberal: Sarah Palin's Curious Record as Alaska's Governor
Author(s): Matthew Zencey (Author)
- Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
- Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 1612341853
- ISBN-13: 9781612341859
Book Description
Zencey, an editor at the Anchorage Daily News during Sarah Palin’s tenure, shows how the Sarah Palin who was so popular in Alaska is starkly different from the Sarah Palin who is now so popular with the Tea Party.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Matthew Zencey’s book is a balanced, carefully reported, and engaging look at Sarah Palin’s actions while governor of Alaska. Zencey comes to some surprising but well-substantiated conclusions. As one chapter asks, ‘This is the record of a Tea Party favorite?'”–Loretta Tofani, Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter,
Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer“Veteran Alaska journalist Matthew Zencey explores Sarah Palin’s career as governor in the years before she rose to the national stage. Zencey is fair and judicious in describing Palin’s political values, how she governed, and the friends and enemies she created while in Juneau.”–Michael Carey, former editorial page editor,
Anchorage Daily NewsAbout the Author
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