Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

Neither side filed an appeal Judge Ross likened McGinniss's conduct to that of "a thief in the night" then he corrected himself saying "I guess a thief in the night wouldn't see you. On September 26 2011 ABC News reported that Palin's attorney John Tiemessen had written a letter to the book's author and publiJoe McGinnissr saying that Palin might sue them "for knowingly publishing false statements. Broadway Books a division of Random House publiJoe McGinnissd The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin on September 20 2011.

He first came to prominence with the best-selling The Selling of the President 1968 which described the marketing of then-presidential candidate Richard Nixon and has authored 11 works since that time. Joe McGinniss (born 1942) is an American author of nonfiction and novels.