Book claims Palins used drugs
September 14, 2011 11:44PM
Sarah and Todd Palin on the campaign trail in 2008. | AP
Updated: November 10, 2011 10:22AM
A new book about Sarah Palin says she and her husband, Todd, had used drugs in the past, according to published reports.
A New York Times review of the book The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin posted online Wednesday says author Joe McGinniss “suggests that Todd Palin and the young Sarah Heath took drugs.”
The National Enquirer, citing “a publishing source,” said that the book claims the Palins “dabbled in cocaine use” before she became governor of Alaska, “snorting cocaine off an overturned 55-gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with pals.”
McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision and The Sellling of the President, also alleges in the book that Palin smoked pot with a professor while at Mat-Su College.
There was no comment from Palin on the reports.
New York Times critic Janet Maslin writes of the book: “Although most of The Rogue is dated, petty and easily available to anyone with Internet access, Mr. McGinniss used his time in Alaska to chase caustic, unsubstantiated gossip about the Palins, often from unnamed sources like ‘one resident’ and ‘a friend.’”
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