Palin was paid a reported $7m (£4.4m) advance for Going Rogue, which has been the subject of fierce discounting in the US. 'I can't wait to see you! God bless the fight for freedom! Keep up the great work, Patriots who love this country.'

I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page – it's dedicated to you – Patriots – who love the USA as much as I do,' the former Republican vice-presidential candidate wrote on her Facebook page before she set off. 'I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you, 'Thanks for loving America'. The figures are nonetheless a long way behind fiction sales: Brown's The Lost Symbol sold more than 1m copies in the US, UK and Canada in its first day in the shops, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 2.6m copies in its first 24 hours in the UK alone.įans have been turning out in their thousands to meet Palin, who last week embarked on a three-week, 14-state tour of the American heartland. Though useful as a catalog of offenses, readers shouldn't expect anything beyond the daily op-ed.Palin's first-day sales are behind Bill Clinton's, whose 2004 memoir My Life sold 400,000 in its first 24 hours, but ahead of Hillary Clinton's, whose autobiography Living History broke records when it was published in 2003, selling 200,000 copies on publication day. Pieces critiquing Palin's platform and record retread territory covered in detail in the progressive press: Mat Hertsgaard on her conservation record ( ''Our Polar Bear, Ourselves'') Jim Hightower on ''Faux Populism'' AlterNet staff editors with Palin's ''Nine Most Disturbing Beliefs.'' Kim and Reed provide a touch of urgency with some pieces on her present and future, including Frank Rich's ''She Broke the GOP and Now She Owns It,'' and a forum discussion in which Jame Hamsher suggests Pailin will make a valuable GOP asset in 2010.

Times, the New Yorker and the Guardian-is dominated by work from the heat of the 2008 campaign, and reads like it Matt Taibbi's ''Mad Dog Palin'' has an outsized (even for him) battlefield mix of glee and horror (Palin ''reminds Joe Average of the mean, brainless slob he sees in the mirror every morning''). According to The Nation magazine editors Kim and Reed (Unnatural Disaster), their title, a riff on Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue, references the transparent decision by Palin and the Republican Party to ''use gender and sex appeal to advance their campaign to capture the White House.'' This collection of 50 articles-from sources including the L.A.

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin