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    The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain
    The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain
    The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain
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    The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain

    Written by Mark Salter

    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd

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    A “moving and lucidly written memoir” (The Wall Street Journal) of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants, friends, and political advisors.

    More so than almost anyone outside of McCain’s immediate family, Mark Salter had unparalleled access to and served to influence the Senator’s thoughts and actions, cowriting seven books with him and acting as a valued confidant. Now, in The Luckiest Man, Salter draws on the storied facets of McCain’s early biography as well as the later-in-life political philosophy for which the nation knew and loved him, delivering an intimate and comprehensive account of McCain’s life and philosophy.

    Salter covers all the major events of McCain’s life—his peripatetic childhood, his naval service—but introduces, too, aspects of the man that the public rarely saw and hardly knew. Woven throughout this narrative is also the story of Salter and McCain’s close relationship, including how they met, and why their friendship stood the test of time in a political world known for its fickle personalities and frail bonds.

    Through Salter’s revealing and “psychological portrait” (The Washington Post) of one of our country’s finest public servants, McCain emerges as both the man we knew him to be and also someone entirely new. Glimpses of his restlessness, his curiosity, his courage, and sentimentality are rendered with sensitivity and care—as only Mark Salter could provide. The capstone to Salter’s intimate and decades-spanning time with the Senator, The Luckiest Man is the authoritative last word on the stories McCain was too modest to tell himself and an influential life not soon to be forgotten.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9781797104973
    Author

    Mark Salter

    Mark Salter has collaborated with John McCain on all seven of their books, including The Restless Wave, Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, Character Is Destiny, Hard Call, and Thirteen Soldiers. He served on Senator McCain’s staff for eighteen years.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent. After learning more about McCain I would have voted for him in 2008.

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    • 5/5
      This is a must read of a man who lived the American dream serving his country and the people of the world. The author painted a picture that allows one to meet the man John McCain. As the book draws to an end I found tears in my eyes. Listening to this book allowed me to get one more look at our American history and how our government really works.
    • 5/5
      What a great book on a great person. Thank you