Her criticisms of the campaign's treatment of her appear prominently in "Going Rogue." But the book contains self-criticisms too, if not as many as there ought to be for a candidate who was ultimately responsible for her own uneven performance. Palin is the author of The New York Times best-selling books Going Rogue: An American Life (November 2009), America by Heart (November 2010), and Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas (November 2013). Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Rogue has proved so popular it has been forced to print an extra 300,000 books after an initial print run of 1.5m, with about 300,000. One of the biggest mistakes of the failed McCain campaign-and there was no shortage of them-was its handling of Mrs. "Of course," she adds drily, "it's pretty easy to issue candid, off-script messages when there is no script to begin with." The campaign hadn't bothered to inform her of the Michigan decision, which she learned of from a reporter. The "word came hurtling down that I had been 'off-script,' " she writes. It was used to describe the vice-presidential candidate's move to break free of her media handlers and speak out against the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan, a state that, in Mrs. "Going Rogue," the title of Sarah Palin's autobiography, refers to the snide remark of an anonymous McCain aide late in last year's presidential campaign.
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