'Going Rogue': Sarah Palin's 400-page book due Nov. 17
Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin鈥檚 memoirs will have a huge initial printing of 1.5 million copies - the same amount as late Sen. Ted Kennedy鈥檚.
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate, has finished her memoir just four months after the book deal was announced, and the release date has been moved up from the spring to Nov. 17.
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Former vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin has finished her much awaited memoir, 鈥淕oing Rogue: An American Life.鈥� The book, which is due out on Nov. 17, has many wondering if Ms. Palin, a favorite among possible Republican candidates, is gearing up for a presidential bid in 2012.
The book may certainly help. Palin鈥檚 publisher, Harper, moved up the release date and ordered a huge initial printing of 1.5 million copies 鈥� the same amount as the late Sen. Ted Kennedy鈥檚 memoir.
鈥淕oing Rogue,鈥� Palin鈥檚 first book, was completed only four months after the deal was announced. It is expected to weigh in at 400 pages.
Since resigning as governor of Alaska, Palin reportedly hunkered down for weeks in San Diego to write the book, working closely with ghostwriter Lynn Vincent. Ms. Vincent has a : Her collaboration with an art dealer who befriended a homeless person, 鈥淪ame Kind of Different as Me,鈥� has sold 560,000 copies, spent 75 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and been considered for a Hollywood movie, reports the San Diego Union Tribune.
Neither Vincent nor Harper would disclose the contents of the book. But Harper editor Jonathan Burnham said it contained 鈥�,鈥� according to the Associated Press.
CNN points out the that book鈥檚 title refers to the lodged by aides to her running mate Sen. John McCain as the 2008 campaign drew to a close.
After Palin strayed from the campaign playbook several times in October 2008, one McCain adviser griped to CNN that the vice presidential nominee was "going rogue." Another called her a "diva."
The public is likely to seize upon the book. Following her controversial and much-watched vice-presidential bid in 2008, Palin has continued to make headlines. Palin has a wide fan base on Twitter and Facebook, with about 900,000 followers, according to the AP. A fan recently in an online auction to have dinner with her.
The former governor of Alaska returned to the limelight this month, giving a talk in Hong Kong, the 海角大神 Science Monitor noted. Observers say the talk may have been designed to burnish her foreign policy credentials and put her back in the public eye.
Despite garnering attention through her talk and her book, Palin, the AP points out, 鈥� from behind a veil.鈥�
Her spokeswoman won't even say what state she's in. The Washington Post reported that Palin spent a month in California working on her book but has since left. Spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton declined to comment.