Re: Book Review

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 14, 4:36=A0pm, G. Morgan <usenet_ab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:56:31 -0500, "Robert L Bass"
>
> <Sa...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >"G. Morgan" wrote:
>
> >> Most plausible!
>
> >The *news* part of the story is that he actually reads. =A0The book, whi=
ch is
> >supposed to be her life's story, is all of 4.5 chapters long. =A0The hal=
f-chapter
> >is the story of her term as the governor. =A0:^)
>
> The NYT gave it a stellar review:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/15book.html?_r=3D1&pagewanted=3Da=
ll
>
> "Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with Ms. Palin=
=92s
> life in Alaska and her family. Despite an annoying tendency to gratuitous=
ly
> drop the names of lots of writers and philosophers =97 in the course of t=
his
> book, she quotes or alludes to Pascal , Plato , Aristotle , Thomas Paine =
,
> Pearl S. Buck, Mark Twain and Melville - she does a lively job of conveyi=
ng
> the frontier feel of the 49th state, ...."
>
> and...
>
>  And she says she was manipulated into doing that famous series of
> Katie Couric interviews (which would do much to cement an image of her as=
 an
> easily caricatured ignoramus)"

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