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The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain

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Readers

83/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Mark Salter

Publisher:

Simon Schuster

Date:

October 13, 2020

A remembrance of the late Senator John McCain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants, friends, and political advisors.

What The Reviewers Say

Geoffrey Kabaservice,
The Washington Post
There was no one like John McCain. But readers may come away from Mark Salter’s outstanding and frequently moving biography of the late Republican senator wondering if the absence of anyone remotely like McCain from our current politics says more about him or us.
Barton Swaim,
The Wall Street Journal
... moving and lucidly written.
Sunil Dasgupta,
The Washington Independent Review of Books
... it highlights a pervasive narrative in American politics that true leaders are called to serve rather than possessing an ambition to do so. Reading Mark Salter’s The Luckiest Man, it’s clear that the late John McCain held closely to that narrative, and that Salter, his employee for nearly three decades, co-author of seven books, acolyte, and friend, seeks to preserve the image.

Publishers Weekly
... an intimate and inspirational portrait.