Faith of My Fathers (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

McCain, John; Salter, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375408479 ISBN 13: 9780375408472

Verlag: Random House Large Print, 1999

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Book by McCain John

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In a family memoir, the Navy veteran and U.S. senator describes the military careers of his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals, his own experiences as a POW in Vietnam, and his political career, examining the relationship between fathers and sons and how it shaped his feelings about honor. 12,500 first printing. (Biography).

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McCain is one of the most admired leaders in the United States government, but his deeply felt memoir of family and war is not a political one and ends before his election to Congress. With candor and ennobling power, McCain tells a story that, in the words of Newsweek, "makes the other presidential candidates look like pygmies."
        
John McCain learned about life and honor from his grandfather and father, both four-star admirals in the U.S. Navy. This is a memoir about their lives, their heroism, and the ways that sons are shaped and enriched by their fathers.
        
John McCain's grandfather was a gaunt, hawk-faced man known as Slew by his fellow officers and, affectionately, as Popeye by the sailors who served under him. McCain Sr. played the horses, drank bourbon and water, and rolled his own cigarettes with one hand. More significant, he was one of the navy's greatest commande

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• Verlag: Random House Large Print
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375408479
• ISBN 13: 9780375408472
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 543