| McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope |
 enlarge | Author: David Foster Wallace
Creator: Jacob Weisberg
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
List Price: $9.99
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Back Bay Pbk. Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0316040533
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.931092
EAN: 9780316040532
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Condition: Clean text. No spinal crease. Tight binding
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Is John McCain "For Real?"
That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was "to inspire young Americans to devote themselves to causes greater than their own self-interest." And many young Americans were beginning to take notice.
To get at "something riveting and unspinnable and true" about John Mccain, Wallace finds he must pierce the smoke screen of spin doctors and media manipulators. And he succeeds-in a characteristically potent blast of journalistic brio that not only captures the lunatic rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign but also delivers a compelling inquiry into John McCain himself: the senator, the POW, the campaign finance reformer, the candidate, the man.
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