Posted on 03/14/2009 7:47:41 AM PDT by SolidWood
Last month, I read Lorenzo Benet's unauthorized biography of Sarah Palin, "Trailblazer," and this week I watched John Ziegler's complete interview with Sarah Palin.
The question I asked myself after finishing both is the same question I've been asking myself since August 29, 2008: Who is Sarah Palin?
Many who know her say that she is exactly the person that she appears to be. And, yet, no one is ever quite what they appear because they appear to be many things to many people. A person as complex and intriguing as Sarah Palin is certainly not that simple. However, complexity does not imply cunning or deceptive manipulation. A person can be honest, straightforward, and completely without guile and yet still be complex.
I've been fascinated by biographies and biography writing my entire life. One my favorite books on the topic is Janet Malcolm's "The Silent Woman." Malcolm tries to get to the truth behind the poet Sylvia Plath, and in my opinion comes closer than anyone else, by revealing the agendas of the biographers writing about Plath. Every biographer molds the biographical subject to fit a vision or agenda. Recognizing that is key to reading a biography objectively. We sign on to the biographer's vision, and we allow ourselves to either agree or disagree with that vision.
Lorenzo Benet's "Trailblazer" was compelling, but no thanks to any talent on his part. It was compelling because Palin is compelling. Benet is not a particularly gifted or imaginative writer. The book is little more than a compilation of various news stories supplemented by interviews. That's certainly not a bad thing. All modern mass market biographies are little more than Nexus Lexus compilations.
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8 years of Obama? Are you nuts? We have to win back congress in 2010 and the presidency in 2012 so get this inevitable Obama win out of your head. And, btw, the only way it is going to happen is with bona fide conservatism.
None of them? Duncan Hunter ran and conservatives should have supported him in droves.
its already been a long four months.
OK, enough! You have succeeded in your goal to make us doubt your sanity.
I asked you to post a side by side comparison proving your assertion that Jindal is more conservative than Palin. Where is it?
“Gaggin’ City Blues”...
Sung by those ever irritatin’ RomneyBots..
:)
Please add me to the Palin list. Thank you.
Good article. Thanks for posting.
2011 is the time to finally commit. But so far she has done nothing to reduce her options.
And the camera HATES Sarah Palin.
Thanks for posting. What a nice article about a super lady.
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