New York Times trashes Palin book
The way the New York Times’ book reviewer casts it, the real rogue of Joe McGinniss’s Palin book, “The Rogue,” is McGinnis himself.
Janet Maslin’s disgust courses through all 1,100 words of the review, which starts with her accusing McGinnis of neighborly rudeness and ends with her more or less equating his lust for publicity with the Palins’.
Maslin first attacks McGinnis, a both celebrated and controversial best-selling author who caused a furor by moving in nextdoor to the Palins to report his book, where it would hurt a journalist most: on his reporting chops.
“Tweets emanated from the Palin place too,” she writes. “But they were the kind that Mr. McGinnis could have monitored from home in Massachusetts.”
She is not impressed with the book’s old-school Gawker Stalker-esque delivery of a map, ten pages in, to the Palins’ secluded home, or McGinnis’s attempt to engage Track Palin with a signed copy of his book about Alaska.
And she savages McGinnis for both the inconsistency and weak sourcing of his rumors, which include that Palin a) lacked boyfriends, b) was racist, and c) hooked up NBA basketball player Glen Rice.
If there is political meat on these bones, it’s of the aged variety, she reports, saying that the questions about Palin’s public record were “mostly the same ones that were hashed over when she became part of the 2008 presidential campaign.”
Of these, Maslin offers a judgment that could stand in for her take on the book as a whole: “too busy being nasty to be lucid.”
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