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An Audio Book Review: Forget Butch and Sundance, Etta's the Real Star Here

Tom Alderman | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Kid Curry, The Sundance Kid, Teddy Roosevelt, Trotsky, Etta Place, The Wild Bunch, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Gerald Koplan, Annie Oakley, The Hole in the Wall Gang, Buffalo Bill Cody, John Dos Passos, Blackstone Audio, Butch Cassidy, Kirsten Potter, E.L. Doctorow, The Pinkerton Detective Agency, The Harvey Girls, Katherine Ross, Ann Hathaway, The Black Hand, A Novel, Robert Redford, Etta, Media News
Tom Alderman

In this imaginative and fictional biography, Etta Place can shoot a gun as well as Annie Oakley, ride a horse like Buffalo Bill and rob banks with the skill of an experienced outlaw.

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Palin the Frontierswoman?

Victoria Rosner | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Commentary, Gender Stereotypes, Women's History, Sarah Palin, Arctic, John McCain, Political Pundits, Mary Jemison, Isabel Gunn, Annie Oakley, Barack Obama, Women in Politics, Susanna Wright, J.R. Dunn, Vice-Presidential Race, 2008 Presidential Race, John Fubbister, Hillary Clinton, Alexander Cockburn, Martha Cannary, Frontierswoman, Politics News
Victoria Rosner

Many see Palin as a frontierswoman-- a throwback to bygone Americans, those women who helped their men win the West (or in this case, the North).

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Sarah Palin's Real Appeal: Annie Oakley is Running for National Office

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Alaska, Annie Get Your Gun, John McCain, Teddy Roosevelt, Russnow, Cindy McCain, Joe Biden, Annie Oakley, Gidget, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Ethel Merman, Republican Convention, Michael Russnow, Fred Thompson, Gail Davis, Bull Moose Party, Media News
Michael Russnow

In their attempt to sell newspapers and build ratings, the major media outlets have accentuated Sarah Palin's so-called virtues, and in so doing made her more appealing than the reality of her public and personal life.

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