The Sarah Palin autobiography recapping her journey from basketball player to Alaska governor to 2008 vice presidential candidate drops next week. Palin kicks off her “Going Rogue: An American Life” book tour in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Nov. 18, and she has one Iowa stop slated — right here in Sioux City.

It’s an amazing get for the Barnes & Noble store at Southern Hills Malls, as Palin will be signing her book at 1 p.m. that day. She’ll then head north for another stop up Interstate 29 in Sioux Falls.

Many conservatives in the Republican Party want Palin to plow ahead with a 2012 presidential bid. Palin will undoubtedly get a positive response with her Sioux City stop. Of course, progressives might also want to sneak in the two-letters-swapped nonflattering  book produced by The Nation: “Going Rouge.”

ADDED 3:10 p.m.: How could I forget this piece of context — Palin has been in Sioux City once previously, when in October 2008 she spoke to an overflow crowd at West High School just days before the election.