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Blogs Cliopatria Celebrating Ernest Gruening

Nov 16, 2009

Celebrating Ernest Gruening

by Cliopatria

A rare shout-out to my favorite former Alaska senator, in Chris Hitchens' dissection of a fawning Palin book.

That the McCain team never seems to have understood just how much Alaska politics differed from that of the Lower 48 is one of many failures in the vetting process that netted Palin.