Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol, Republican ideologue, fashion icon, “maverick” populist. But, above all, Palin has become one thing: an American obsession that just won’t go away. Edited by two senior editors at The Nation magazine, this sharp, smart, up-to-the-minute book examines Palin’s quirky origins in Wasilla, Alaska, her spectacular rise to the effective leadership of the Republican Party, and the nightmarish prospect of her continuing to dominate the nation’s political scene.

With contributions by: Amy Alexander, Max Blumenthal, Juan Cole, Joe Conason, Jeanne Devon, Eve Ensler, Michelle Goldberg, Jane Hamsher, Christopher Hayes, Mark Hertsgaard, Jim Hightower, Linda Hirshman, Naomi Klein, Dahlia Lithwick, Amanda Marcotte, Jane Mayer, Shannyn Moore, John Nichols, Rick Perlstein, Tom Perrotta, Katha Pollitt, Robert Reich, Frank Rich, Hanna Rosin, Jeff Sharlet, Matt Taibbi, Michael Tomasky, Rebecca Traister, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Jessica Valenti, Patricia Williams, JoAnn Wypijewski and Gary Younge among others.

“A superb collection . . . an engaging read from start to finish. . . . You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs.” — Geoffrey Dunn, The Huffington Post

Publication November 16th 2009 • 336 pages
paperback ISBN 978-0-9842950-0-5 • ebook ISBN 978-0-9842950-1-2

Richard Kim is a senior editor at The Nation (www.thenation.com/directory/bios/richard_kim) where he writes about politics and culture. His essays and editorials have appeared in Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Boston Herald, In These Times, Nerve, Metro, Poz and other publications. He has taught American Studies at Skidmore College and New York University.

Betsy Reed is the executive editor of The Nation, where she works with such writers as Naomi Klein, Katha Pollitt and Jeremy Scahill. She blogs at thenation.com on feminism, economic issues and politics. She edited two previous anthologies: Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, and Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror.

Amy Alexander’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, National Public Radio, TheRoot.com, and the Nation. Her next book, Minority Opinion: A Story of Race, Media, and Reinvention (Beacon Press), will be published January 2010.

Emily Bazelon is a senior editor at Slate and the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, and Mother Jones.

Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for the Daily Beast and a contributor to the Nation, Al Jazeera English, Salon, AlterNet, the Huffington Post, and the Washington Monthly. His new book is Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (Nation Books). Research support for his article was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent books include Engaging the Muslim World and Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East. He also has a regular column at Salon and writes the blog Informed Comment.

Joe Conason is national correspondent for the New York Observer, a columnist for Salon, and the director of the Nation Institute Investigative Fund. His books indclude Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth.

Jeanne Devon, based in Alaska, blogs as AKMuckraker and Mudflats.

Eve Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Her latest work is her first book, Insecure At Last: Losing It In Our Security-Obsessed World.

Amanda Fortini has written for the New Yorker, Slate, Elle, and New York, among other publications. She contributed to Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia.

Thomas Frank is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. He is the founder and editor of The Baffler and the author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule and What’s the Matter with Kansas?

Dana Goldstein is an associate editor at the American Prospect. Her writing has also appeared in BusinessWeek, Slate, the Guardian, the New Republic, and the Nation.

Michelle Goldberg is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism and The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. She is currently a blogger at the Huffington Post and also writes an online column for the American Prospect. Research support for her article was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.

Jane Hamsher is the founder of firedoglake.com and the author of the best-selling book Killer Instinct. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, PBS, and the BBC.

Christopher Hayes is the Nation’s Washington, D.C., editor. His articles have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the American Prospect, the New Republic, the Washington Monthly and the Chicago Reader. He is currently a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor of the Nation. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America—And Taking Down The Radical Right and editor of The Dictionary of Republicanisms. Her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

Jim Hightower writes a nationally syndicated column carried by seventy- five independent weekly newspapers and other publications. He also writes a monthly newsletter, “The Hightower Lowdown.”

Mark Hertsgaard is the environment correspondent at the Nation. He is the author of five books. His next book is Living Through the Storm: How We Survive the Next 50 Years of Climate Change.

Sheila Kaplan is a lecturer in political reporting at the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Nation, Salon, Legal Times, the Washington Monthly and U.S. News & World Report.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and No Logo. Klein’s regular column for the Nation and the Guardian is distributed internationally by the New York Times Syndicate.

Richard Kim is a senior editor at the Nation.

Michael T. Klare is the defense correspondent for the Nation and professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. His latest book is Rising Power, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy.

Linda Hirshman is the author of Get to Work: And Get A Life Before It’s Too Late. She is also a columnist with Double X.

Jane Mayer is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the best-selling book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals.

Elstun Lauesen is a rural affairs specialist in Alaska.

Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, and is a weekly legal commentator for the NPR show, Day to Day. She is co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World.

Amanda Marcotte is a blogger for Pandagon. Her book is entitled It’s a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments.

Shannyn Moore is a broadcaster based in Anchorage, Alaska, who has interviewed Sarah Palin numerous times. She has appeared on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Keith Olbermann’s Countdown and the Rachel Maddow Show.

Brentin Mock is a Metcalf Institute Fellow for Environmental Reporting at the American Prospect. He also writes for Essence, GOOD, and Next American City magazines. His work has also appeared in Intelligence Report, Harper’s, the Source, and the Pittsburgh City Paper.

David Neiwert is the author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, Death on the Fourth of July: The Story of a Killing, a Trial, and Hate Crime in America, and In God’s Country: The Patriot Movement and the Pacific Northwest. Research support for his article was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.

John Nichols writes the Online Beat at TheNation.com. He also writes for the Nation as its Washington correspondent and is a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times. He is the author of The Genius of Impeachment, Jews for Buchanan, and Dick: The Man Who Is President.

Katha Pollitt is a columnist at the Nation. Her work has been compiled in: Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism; Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture; and Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time.

Tom Perrotta is a novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election and Little Children, both of which were made into films. His latest novel, The Abstinence Teacher, has just been published in paperback.

Rick Perlstein is the author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. He previously wrote a column for the New Republic Online.

Betsy Reed is the executive editor of the Nation. She was the editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, and the anthology Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror.

Robert Reich is co-founding editor of the American Prospect magazine. He has written twelve books, including The Work of Nations. His commentaries can be heard weekly on public radio’s Marketplace.

Frank Rich is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. He has written his childhood memoir, Ghost Light; and a collection of Rich’s drama reviews, Hot Seat: Theater Criticism for The New York Times, 1980–1993, was published in 1998.

Hanna Rosin is a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly and the author of God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America.

Hart Seely is an award-winning reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard. He is the author of Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington: Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard.

Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone and the co-creator of two online journals; Killing the Buddha and the Revealer. He authored The Family: Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power.

Marilyn Berlin Snell is a San Francisco–based journalist and editor who has written for the New York Times, This American Life, the New Republic, Discover, Mother Jones, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times, NPQ, and Sierra. Research support for her article was provided by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.

Gloria Steinem launched the feminist Ms. magazine. She has authored Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem and more recently, Doing Sixty and Seventy.

Matt Taibbi works at Rolling Stone where he authors a column, “Road Rage.” He also recently joined True/Slant as a blogger. His most recent book is titled The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics & Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire.

Michael Tomasky is the editor in chief of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, editor of Guardian America, and a contributing editor for the American Prospect.

Rebecca Traister is a senior writer at Salon. She has freelanced for Elle, the Nation, the New York Times, and Glamour. Her new book Big Girls Don’t Cry, about women and the 2008 presidential election, will be published in fall 2010 by the Free Press at Simon & Schuster.

Jessica Valenti is the founder and editor of the popular blog Feministing.com, and the author of: Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters and He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut… 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know.

Patricia J. Williams is a professor of law at Columbia University. Her publications include Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave and We Are Not Married: A Journal of Musings on Legal Language and the Ideology of Style.

JoAnn Wypijewski is a columnist for Mother Jones and formerly an editor at the Nation. She is the editor of Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid’s Scientific Guide to Art, and The Thirty Years Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965–1994.

Gary Younge is a fellow at the Nation Institute. He is also the New York correspondent for the Guardian and the author of No Place Like Home: A Black Briton’s Journey through the Deep South and Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States.

Huffington Post, July 4th 2010

Sam Tanenhaus, The New Yorker, December 7th 2009

Zoe Heller picks Going Rouge as Book of the Year in The Guardian (London), November 28th 2009

Newsweek quiz featuring Going Rouge, November 27th 2009

Betsy Reed features in New York Times Sunday magazine piece by Lisa Belkin, November 23rd 2009

Richard Kim on CNBC, November 24th 2009

Gawker, November 23rd 2009

Today.com, November 23rd 2009

Los Angeles Times, November 23rd 2009

New York Post, Page 6, November 23rd 2009

The Independent (London) November 21st 2009

Alaska Dispatch, November 21st 2009

Naomi Klein, Joy Behar Show, CNN, November 18th 2009

Interview with Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, GQ, November 18th 2009

Jezebel, November 18th 2009

Mediaite, November 18th 2009

Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, November 18th 2009

Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, CNN, November 17th 2009

Michael Tomasky, CiF, The Guardian, November 17th 2009

USA Today/Newsbusters, November 16th 2009

Katrina vanden Heuvel, Morning Joe, MSNBC, November 16th 2009

Richard Kim, Talking Points Memo, November 16th 2009

Colin Robinson, Huffington Post, November 16th 2009

Max Blumenthal, Richard Kim and Rebecca Traister, Grit TV with Laura Flanders, November 16th 2009,

San Francisco Chronicle, November 15th 2009

Alternet, November 13th 2009

Interview with Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, Truthout, November 12th 2009

Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, The Nation, November 11th 2009

MSNBC accidentally includes cover of Going Rouge in piece on Palin tour, November 11th 2009

Tampa Bay, November 9th 2009