Former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party of America political rally, September 3, 2011 in Indianola, Iowa. UPI/Steve Pope |
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(UPI) -- Sarah Palin will spend the run-up to the holidays promoting her new book about defending the celebration of Christmas, launching a month-long small town tour beginning next Tuesday.
Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas is Palin's clarion call to the faithful to assert the right to keep the Christ in Christmas -- in public displays, school concerts, pageants and the all-important seasonal greetings -- against the political correctness and over-commercializations she says are threatening traditional values.
"At a time when Christian values are challenged -- when the greeting "Merry Christmas" has been replaced by the supposedly less offensive "Happy Holidays" -- Governor Sarah Palin makes the case for bringing back the freedom to express the religious spirit of the season," the publisher's description of the book reads.
Palin will kick off the tour November 12, appropriately, in Bethlehem Township, Pa., at 6 p.m. at a Barnes & Noble store, where she will sign copies of the book and pose for pictures.
Her tour will skip major metropolitan centers such as Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago, instead hitting military installations near Fort Campbell, Ky., Fort Benning, Ga., as well as a Wal-Mart in Wausau, Wisc,. and finish up in Roanoke, Va, on December 7.
Palin has penned two other books, Going Rogue and America By Heart, both New York Times bestsellers.
