As Sarah Palin reenters the national scene, new details are emerging about behind-the-scenes drama that marked her Vice Presidential bid.

In the new book Sarah From Alaska, two reporters who traveled with Palin and her running mate John McCain, say it was all-out civil war.  

The growing tension hit fever pitch the night they lost the election. McCain's staffers literally shut the lights out on Palin, fearing she would embarrass them and deliver a concession speech, something they told her she could not do.  

"She goes up to take a picture with her family and they were so afraid she was going to give this banned speech that they turned the lights off on her," says Shushannah Walshe, one of the book's authors.

The book also offers fresh details on another big campaign controversy, Palin's expensive wardrobe.

Co-author Scott Conroy says, "She was one of the only ones in the room that was saying, 'These clothes are too expensive.' Her own staffers started cutting the price tags off because they knew Palin was so offended by the cost of these clothes that she wouldn't want to wear them."

The authors also reveal right after her debate with Joe Biden, Palin made it clear that she was ready for bigger things and was overheard saying, "I just don't want to go back to Alaska."

"She meant that as, 'I want to win this campaign,' but what it turned out to be was a prescient comment because once she got back to Alaska things had changed so much...she was so unhappy with the state of affairs there that she ended up resigning," says Conroy.

Conroy and Walshe also have inside information on Palin's public enemy number one, Levi Johnston, who has been slamming Palin in the press: "They dressed him up into something he clearly wasn't comfortable being... in the suit and all of that...they really tried to make him look like he was part of the family and everything was hunky dory...which we know now is not true," Conroy says.