Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks

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Simon and Schuster, 9 nov. 2009 - 201 pages
When a California beauty queen had the audacity – the nerve – to stand up for traditional marriage in front of a national televised audience, well then, the liberal media went crazy. They called her every vile name in the book – while feminists around the country were oddly silent. Like Sarah Palin, Laura Bush, Ann Coulter and so many before her, Carrie Prejean was vilified for not being the modern American woman that NOW had in mind. But through it all, Carrie Prejean, former Miss California, maintained her composure, courage, faith—and stood her ground.
 

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Chapter Two Standing Up for Myself
9
Chapter Three Just Another Sport
25
Chapter Four Planet Hollywood
43
Chapter Five Not Exactly World Peace
63
Chapter Six Was It Something I Said?
75
Chapter Seven A Wing and a Prayer
87
Chapter Eight Calling Donald Trump
109
Chapter Nine Fired by Radio
133
Chapter Ten Gagging Free Speech
149
Chapter Eleven Stand Up for Yourself
171
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Caroline Michelle "Carrie" Prejean Boller is an American model, author, former Miss California USA 2009 and Miss USA 2009 first runner-up. Prejean received national attention in 2009 through a series of events that occurred after pageant judge and gossip blogger Perez Hilton used his final question in the Miss USA pageant to ask Prejean about same-sex marriage laws in the United States, and used his popular gossip blog to publicize her response.

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