PublicAffairs Buys Sarah Palin Book

Two television reporters just signed a deal to write about the time they spent embedded with the Sarah Palin campaign during the 2008 election.

Television journalists Scott F. Conroy (CBS News) and Shushannah Walshe (Fox) just signed on to write a book tentatively entitled, Sarah from Alaska for PublicAffairs. If they need a little literary advice, GalleyCat once asked novelist Paul Malmont the burning question: What Would Jack London Think about Sarah Palin? And we reported on rumors of Palin’s own $7 million book deal.

Here’s the scoop, from Conroy, on Politico:

“While we’re obviously going to use our experiences on the trail to report a lot of new information on how the Palin campaign was run, the book is also going to be forward-looking. There’s a long list of unsuccessful VP nominees who’ve faded into obscurity, but what we think is so interesting about Palin is that even in defeat, she was able to win the hearts of the GOP base, and love her or hate her, she’ll be back on the national scene.”

(Via Michael Calderone)

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