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The Daily Mail
Tell-all book on Sarah Palin's marriage and politics behind closed doors to be published next month
* Manuscript is 'a chilling exposé' say publishers
* Claims she walked round home in open bathrobe
The intimate secrets of Sarah Palin's marriage in a tell-all book by a former aide will be published next month.
Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced today that Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin will go on sale on May 24.
The book, written by former trusted aide Frank Bailey reveals a disturbing tale of the Republican Alaska governor's marriage and her run for the vice presidency.
It is 'a chilling exposé of Palin and the story of one man’s slow drift from his most cherished beliefs to his ultimate redemption', according to Howard Books.
Bailey’s book will come out before a widely anticipated book about Palin, The Rogue, by the author and journalist Joe McGinniss, which is expected to be published in September.
Critics of Bailey, who worked with Palin from 2006 to 2009 as her chief of staff, paint him as a disgruntled former employee who was bitter about being sidelined by her campaign team.
Some of the leaks about his manuscript - based on 60,000 emails exchanged between them - have revealed how Palin and her husband Todd 'don't talk', she walks around their home in an open bathrobe and his laughter over a doctored nude photograph.
According to The Daily Beast, the manuscript catalogues angry conversations during her political campaigns, including a description of her skin as being 'tanning-bed bronze'.
And it claims she wrote fake letters to newspapers in the name of supporters praising her 'leadership and ethics'.
Palin, 47, confided in Bailey about personal family matters, writing in one email: 'We're not like normal couples, Frank. We don't talk.'
Bailey described how her husband would take Palin's BlackBerry in order to read her emails for 'emotional clues' during the 2006 Alaska campaign.
Bailey also alleges that Todd even accessed her emails without her knowledge, and if he saw something that worried him, he would call Bailey with his concerns.
In another email, Todd accused his wife of being 'callous' about daughter Bristol after she told him in a note: 'Bristol's mad at me. Says this isn't fun. Too bad.'
The school grades of her five children suffered, Bailey alleges, because they were left 'on their own for large stretches of time.'
According to the Daily Beast, Bailey claimed Palin drafted letters to newspapers during her run for governor and sent them in under supporters' names.
In one letter she emailed to Bailey, the 'supporter' praises her leadership skills, experience, ethics and energy.
In part it read: 'It's clear Sarah is committed to just doing the right thing, even if her Republican Party bosses try to punish her for it.'
Palin began an email with Bailey saying: 'I feel like we are the last of the innocents,' before encouraging the fake editorial letters.
Bailey claimed Palin often compared herself to the Jewish biblical heroine Queen who sat on the throne in Persia.
She believed her campaign and life in politics was a 'divine calling.'
In June 2006, she sent an email to Bailey describing her belief and used a line close to her 2008 campaign mantra, 'I know what I know what I know.'
She wrote: 'You know when you're called for something…there's no guarantee of the outcome but you just know, with a confidence that can only comes (sic) from God.'
Bailey reveals a doctored pornographic photograph sent to Palin's campaign which showed the candidate's head on top a nude body was greeted with laughter by her husband.
Bailey called Todd to relay his concern and writes that Todd's response was: 'Is it real?'
'He laughed in his quiet Todd-way and said, ‘Well she walks around the house with her robe open and with all those windows we have, well, you know…'
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