Overview
The son and grandson of navy admirals, it was no surprise that a young John McCain entered active duty and quickly rose to the rank of captain as a naval aviator. What could not be foreseen was McCain's tour of duty in Vietnam, which would end with his plane being shot down. In ""Man of the People"", political journalist Paul Alexander offers an in-depth account of this remarkable patriot's journey from naval academy student to presidential hopeful. We follow McCain during his 21-year tour in the US Navy and watch as he evolves into one of America's most respected and distinguished political leaders.
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Alexander
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.756kg
ISBN: 9780471228295
ISBN 10: 047122829
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 17 October 2002
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Alexander has written lives of Sylvia Plath and James Dean, but he became a political journalist in the 1990s and recently wrote several articles about Republican Senator McCain of Arizona for Rolling Stone. The first two-thirds of this biography retell the stories (third-generation navy, five years as a POW in Hanoi) we've already heard, in McCain's own Faith of My Fathers (1999) and Robert Timberg's The Nightingale's Song (1995) without substantially revising the public understanding of McCain. In fact, Alexander's version occasionally seems politically naive. He deals with McCain's transition from military officer to aspiring congressman, for example, in just a few pages, never questioning the motives for this career change. This lack of political perspective may stem from Alexander's populist adulation of his subject, whom he calls the one current politician who best articulates the hopes and dreams of the common man. It's no surprise, then, that the blow-by-blow coverage of McCa
offers an informative, politically astute biography that is recommended... (Library Journal, November 15, 2002)
Author Information
PAUL ALEXANDER is cohost of the highly rated WABC radio show with John Batchelor, Batchelor & Alexander. He has become a widely read political journalist in recent years, and his articles have appeared in George, Mirabella, The Advocate, and, most recently, Rolling Stone. He is the author of biographies on Sylvia Plath, James Dean, and J.D. Salinger. In addition, his cultural reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, New York, the Village Voice, Worth, Interview, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Out, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, Premiere, Gear, Travel & Leisure, the New York Observer, and The Guardian. During the fall of 2002, he will be a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Alexander lives in New York City.
