An Alaska bookstore had 1,000 armbands ready and even portable toilets for those expected to camp outside to get a glimpse of the GOP’s biggest political celebrity, as she’d sign her new book. But only a few hundred showed up.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.