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NEW YORK — For Sarah Palin, whose electrifying debut on the national stage at last year's Republican National Convention was followed by perceived missteps and critical coverage that left her feeling unappreciated and under attack, "Going Rogue: An American Life" is a shot at redemption as well as revenge.
Like just about everything she has done publicly since she was thrust into the national spotlight as Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, Palin's entry into the literary world has been splashy and contentious.
Her three-week, 14-state tour, to be kicked off Monday by an appearance on "Oprah," is an opportunity to recapture the narrative of her own career, keep her political options open and make heaps of money in the process.
After suddenly resigning the governorship of Alaska this summer and laying low for a few months to write her memoir, she crashed back into the limelight this week with a book that topped bestseller lists well before its Tuesday publication.
On Thursday, the Associated Press said it managed to purchase a copy, and reported that Palin's book, co-written with journalist Lynn Vincent, offers a folksy account of her life that reveals, among other things, the anguish she felt about her unwed teenage daughter's pregnancy and its public dissection.
But, said the AP, it is also a score-settling account.
Palin is angry about being depicted as a grubby clotheshorse during the campaign, angry about getting stuck with $50,000 in legal fees related to the vetting process for vice president, angry about being "bottled up" from the press by McCain staffers, and angry about her treatment in the media.
On Friday, true to pugnacious form, Palin, on her Facebook page, accused the AP of "erroneously reporting the contents of the book."
AP, however, stands by its story. "We've read the book; we've read it carefully — and we stand by our reporting," Paul Colford, AP director of media relations, said Friday.
