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'If the world doesn't know who Republican presidential nominee John McCain is as yet, it certainly will do whatever happens in the US elections on 4th November. Welch, editor of Reason Magazine, has produced a sober-minded biography that uncovers the 71-year-old Arizona senator's political life and the beliefs that could soon make him the most powerful man in the world.' --The Big Issue
'How the journalistic elite got taken for a ride on the Straight Talk Express is one of the revelatory sagas of modern-day Washington. Matt Welch has the audacity to think that John McCain's views matter, not only his legends, and he smokes out McCain with gusto. You don't have to follow him every inch of the way into libertarian politics--as I do not--to be dazzled by the light he casts on a telling tragedy of American politics.' --- Todd Gitlin, author of The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals
'John McCain's love affair with the news media is a decade old. But McCain makes clear that that love affair is over.' --- Glenn Reynolds, author of An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, and blogger at Instapundit
'How the journalistic elite got taken for a ride on the Straight Talk Express is one of the revelatory sagas of modern-day Washington. Matt Welch has the audacity to think that John McCain's views matter, not only his legends, and he smokes out McCain with gusto. You don't have to follow him every inch of the way into libertarian politics--as I do not--to be dazzled by the light he casts on a telling tragedy of American politics.' --- Todd Gitlin, author of The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals
'John McCain's love affair with the news media is a decade old. But McCain makes clear that that love affair is over.' --- Glenn Reynolds, author of An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, and blogger at Instapundit
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This is the first skeptical bio of the presidential candidate and self-described maverick, John McCain. After taking a media battering in March and April, McCain continues to be near the front of the pack and is still a formidable force to beat in the 2008 nomination. As the campaign heats up and the gloves come off, the public will be waiting and watching for anything that pokes holes in McCain's pristine reputation. Welch is a prolific and highly regarded political writer and pundit. His blog as well as his articles and columns in the "National Post", "Reason", and "The L.A. Times" continue to garner critical acclaim and popularity. His extensive media contacts should result in heavy review and radio coverage. Welch, known as a libertarian, is respected by writers and readers on both sides of the political spectrum for his politically savvy and balanced approach.McCain is one of the most familiar, sympathetic, and overexposed figures in American politics, yet his concrete governing philosophy and actual track record have been left curiously unexamined. In "McCain", journalist and pundit Matt Welch offers political portrait of a man onto whom people are forever projecting their own ideological fantasies.
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