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McCain's Promise : Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John Mccain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope by David Foster Wallace (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316040533
ISBN-139780316040532
eBay Product ID (ePID)66255823
Product Key Features
Book TitleMcCain's Promise : Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John Mccain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPolitical Process / General, Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Political, Essays
Publication Year2008
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.7 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-925452
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Wallace's inexperience as a campaign reporter is an advantage here, leading to unvarnished insights."-- Ariel Gonzalez , Miami Herald, Wallace conveys a geniuine disillusionment at the sham of the whole arrangement: the endless political posturing, the robotic news coverage...At the same time, he recognize's McCain's essential magnetism., Compelling...A patient and thoughtful meditation on what McCain's military past-specifically, his five-plus years as a prisoner of war-means about his moral fiber., "Wallace conveys a geniuine disillusionment at the sham of the whole arrangement: the endless political posturing, the robotic news coverage...At the same time, he recognize's McCain's essential magnetism."-- Steve Almond , Los Angeles Time Book Review, "Compelling...A patient and thoughtful meditation on what McCain's military past-specifically, his five-plus years as a prisoner of war-means about his moral fiber."-- Kevin Canfield , Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wallace's inexperience as a campaign reporter is an advantage here, leading to unvarnished insights.
Dewey Decimal973.931092
SynopsisIs 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., One of our most brilliantly entertaining observers of American culture spends a week embedded in Senator John McCain's entourage - and indelibly captures the nonstop circus that is an American presidential campaign.
LC Classification NumberE840.8.M26W35 2008
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