Palin coming to Fort Hood Dec. 4 Posted On: Friday, Nov. 20 2009 05:26 AM From staff and wire reports

Sarah Palin is coming to Fort Hood next month to promote her book, "Going Rogue."

She's scheduled to be at the Clear Creek Main Exchange from 7 to 10 p.m. Dec. 4 to sign copies of the book and greet fans.

The stop is part of a multi-state tour to promote the former Alaska governor's memoir, which is on sale now.

The roughly 127,000-word book covers Palin's life before politics, her years in local government in Wasilla, Alaska, her tenure as governor and her failed vice presidential campaign with Republican presidential nominee John McCain in 2008.

The Associated Press electronically scanned the book, "Going Rogue," and, using software to highlight the most common words, created a "word cloud" that captures the book in a nutshell: Alaska, campaign, Todd, family, kids, right, governor, government, oil, work, energy.

The themes will seem familiar to anyone who followed Palin's campaign. She refers to her husband, Todd, more than 200 times, and uses words like "family," "kids," "mom" and "dad" about 600 times combined.

Palin, who championed "drill, baby, drill!" as a campaign slogan, used "oil" and "energy" more than 250 times, combined, nearly as often as she used the word "campaign."

But despite the book's content, Palin's book is a big draw. "Going Rogue" has been on the best-seller list for weeks, even though it only became available Tuesday, and thousands lined up to attend her first book- signing in Michigan Wednesday.