"Going to Extremes" is back in paperback

August 30th 10:36

By MARGARET BAUMAN

In the introduction to the latest paperback edition of "Going to Extremes," author Joe McGinniss muses that Alaska was just 16 years old and Sarah Palin just 13 when he arrived in November 1975 to write that popular best seller.

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