The Lies of Sarah Palin: the untold story behind her relentless quest for power

By Geoffrey Dunn

This is the first full-scale, in-depth political biography of America’s most polarising figure.

Based on more than two hundred interviews — many of them with Republican colleagues and one-time political allies of Palin’s — and more than forty thousand pages of uncovered documents, Dunn chronicles Palin’s troubling penchant for duplicity in grim detail, from her dysfunctional childhood in Wasilla to her contentious run for mayor and her failed governorship of Alaska. He also provides the shocking inside story of her betrayal of running mate John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign and her self-serving resignation as governor in July of the following year. Dunn deftly places Palin in the American tradition of malevolent demagogues — from Huey Long to Joe McCarthy — and examines her troubling obsession with Barack Obama as it fuels her political ambitions and a potential run for the presidency in 2012.

The Lies of Sarah Palin is a journalistic tour de force that vividly reveals the queen of the Tea Party movement as a vengeful and manipulative empress without clothes. This is the definitive book on Sarah Palin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribe Publications
• Release date: Oct 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781921942198

Geoffrey Dunn

Geoffrey Dunn is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker with more than three decades experience as an investigative reporter. A frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, Dunn has also served as a Senior Editor for Metro Newspapers in Northern California, where he has received awards for investigative journalism from the National Newspaper Association, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Peninsula Press Club. His documentary films include the award-winning Calypso Dreams; Miss…or Myth?; and Dollar a Day, 10¢ a Dance. Dunn received a B.A. in politics (with honors), as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology, from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught courses in documentary film, nonfiction writing and American political history and culture. He received an Excellence in Teaching Award there in 2000. Dunn was raised in an Italian-American fishing community and worked in the Pacific Coast fishery industry until the mid-1980s.

Reviews for The Lies of Sarah Palin

[magatha_6 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book was fascinating, but thank god it has a substantial bibliography and an index, because there are so many editing and typographical errors that without those appendices, I might have been inclined to marginalize it entirely.Want examples? Check the hardcover edition, page 105, which proffers "doublejeopardy" as a legal term. doublejeopardy, one word. And on page 256, there is a typo regarding Jim Barnett that is obvious and clunky and not at all suspicious, just careless. There are others (wrung instead of rung) but I forbear.I can't necessarily fault Mr. Dunn for this. It's probably just curmudgeonly of me, because in the olden days, careful copy-editing was a respected job, and one that I might have worked at, except for these is modern times and we don't need no copy editors on account of we have Spellcheck.Okay. Aside from all that, I consider this book to be thoughtful, detailed, uncomfortably insightful regarding the state of our nation, and well worth reading. It really ought to have had a less strident title, though.