A new book, titled Sarah from Alaska*, reveals Sarah Palin at her most ambitious just before John McCain gave his concession speech.
CNN got its hands on the book, and reports on the pivotal moment when Palin ignored word that she wouldn't get to speak on election night.
.... she told no one on her staff, the authors write, setting off a series of staff miscommunications that went unresolved until moments before McCain took the stage to concede the election.
Palin did not inform her adviser Jason Recher, who was planning out Palin's movements that night, about [Steve] Schmidt's directive.
"I'm speaking," Palin told him, according to the book. "I've got the remarks. Figure it out."
.... The confusion continued until the final minutes before the concession speech, when Palin - still shuffling through her speech notes - gathered with McCain, family members and senior staff outside McCain's villa at the resort.
Sensing uncertainty, [McCain adviser Mark] Salter finally put his foot down. "You're not speaking," the longtime McCain adviser told Palin. "John has decided it's unprecedented."
*The book is written by two great journalists, Scott Conroy of CBS News and Shushannah Walshe, a reporter and producer at Fox News during the 2008 election campaign.
