“If you’re any kind of Palin-watcher (and aren’t we all?) you will not have failed to pick up the futuristic resonances of Ride a Cockhorse. A small town revolutionized, a good-ol’-boys network dismantled … A triumphantly attractive woman crushing the opposition … A pell-mell accession to power, an enthralled media, a number of aggrieved victims … ‘Bureaucratic procedures were replaced by flashes of intuition,’ writes Kennedy of Mrs Fitzgibbons at the Parish Bank, exactly describing Palin’s gutsy, freestyle approach to governance, her magnificent impatience with process.”
— Raymond Kennedy’s Ride a Cockhorse, “The 1991 Novel that Predicted Sarah Palin”
Review by James Parker
