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Palin’s write $tuff beats out Hillary’s

Hillary Clinton, read this and weep.

Sarah Palin’s autobiography, “Going Rogue,” handily beat out the secretary of state’s memoir, “Living History,” in terms of first-week sales, moving 700,000 copies compared to Clinton’s 600,000.

Palin, the failed Republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, sold a whopping 300,000 copies on her first day alone.

But Clinton can take some consolation in the fact that the former Alaskan governor wasn’t even close to beating out her hubby, ex-President Bill Clinton.

His wildly popular tome, “My Life,” sold 900,000 in its first week in 2004.

The former first lady also one-upped Palin perhaps where it hurt most — in the pocketbook.

Hillary landed an $8 million advance, compared to Palin’s $5 million.

But as the sales of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tome have fizzled by now, Palin’s book yesterday was the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.

Publisher HarperCollins last week said it was already upping its initial 1.5 million run by an additional 1 million copies.

Palin is in the midst of a whirlwind national tour to promote the 432-page work, which delves into everything from the behind-the-scenes turmoil that led up to the GOP’s election debacle, to her teenage daughter’s shocking pregnancy.

On Monday, she landed at Fort Bragg, NC, where officials estimated that more than 4,000 people turned out to see her.

For some supporters, the ex-veep candidate’s book-signing turned into an anti-President Obama rally.

“He’s so wishy-washy about Afghanistan,” said G.R. Quinn, a 58-year-old military vet.

Some pro-Palin people say her book is doing exactly what it should — helping to set up their favorite “rogue” conservative for a potential presidential run in 2012.

“This book has allowed her to reclaim her political narrative,” Robert Costa of the conservative National Review said of Palin, who was roundly ridiculed for her folksy talk during her doomed run with John McCain.

“She has reclaimed her own story by writing about it,” Costa insisted to Fox News.

As for the impressive book sales, Jim Milliot, a honcho with Publisher’s Weekly, told Fox, “I think people want to hear her side of the story.

“There’s a lot of back and forth about her in the media, and they want to know what she’s about,” Milliot said.

Additional reporting by AP