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Summary: A TRUE BLUE GENT!
Review: This book actually covers the life of three men. McCain's father and his grandfather. Both of the previous named were four-star admirals. If you have been in the Navy, I will warn you that you won't put this book down once you pick it up. (remember, I warned you). McCain leaves nothing out. My favorite anecdote is when McCain leaves Naval College. He and his fathers seem to always be the leaders wherever they go. But after graduation, the McCain Clan (yes, he was a "hell raiser") were divided into two camps. Those married and those not. So McCain's camp was cut in half. He was dating a real doll (but not of the most genial quality) and they more or less invited themselves to the Married Officer's party. Stone silence. Nobody could talk because someone (McCain) had apparently brought a skunk or woman of "lower breeding" into the room. After several more minutes, this woman took out a switchblade and started cleaning her fingernails with it! McCain grabbed her hand and made a hasty retreat! Yes. McCain loved to raise cane. I don't want to review the part after he is captured. It is simply amazing that he survived. The beatings and torturings went on and on and on. They became worse during the last 18 months of his capture. Because he could leave any time! The North Vietnamese wanted him as a pawn because his father was now in total charge of our men in the Atlantic. He went by the code. 1) God 2) Country 3) The Alliance With Your Fellow Prisoners. But, after 18 months of tremendously severe beatings, he did agree to the North Vietnamese's demands. In part. McCain has a very soft demure today. But he is a very "Tough Monkey". I don't think we can imagine what he went through. A lot of it turns my stomach. Hell! I would have cracked after 18 minutes of just THINKING about what they were going to do to me. This part of the book is real mayhem. So tread lightly. Many many of his friends were simply tortured to death. And McCain does not pull back on the details. He simply tells you what happened. Everything else leads up to this point. Where McCain's personality takes on great compassion and devotion. Even though he seems to be sick or dying half the time. Please buy and read this book. Thank you.
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Summary: Some Hope in a Hopeless Age
Review: Within reading the first few words of this book, I suddenly felt that I knew John McCain. His honesty and humility is at once engaging and captivating, both to heart and mind. I felt he had reached out and grabbed my hand, bringing me into his life, his thoughts, his very soul. When I finished reading the book, I felt my life had been changed. To see how one man struggled, suffered, and endured so much, it made me question what I was doing with my own life. I wanted to realize my own destiny, so that someday I could look back and know that I "served a cause greater than my own self interest," to borrow a McCain phrase. I've bookmarked this review site and check back here often, always in awe of the sheer amount of support and admiration demonstrated on this site alone. I'd like to write to all of you personally and thank you; for recognizing and supporting this great man, and for being a personal encouragement to me in this otherwise modern, cynical age. God bless you, and God bless John McCain!
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Summary: A professional writer's point of view
Review: I beg to differ with the reviewers who call Senator McCain's book disorganized and confusing. Part of constructing a good story is to show the setting. Nearly 1/2 of the setting is the Hanoi Hilton. What would be going through McCain's mind while there? Simple. Disorganization and confusion. Confusion can be bad and good. If it's used correctly, like in this book, it gives the reader a sharp idea of what was going through the characters mind, or in this case, John McCain's. In my opinion, McCain is willing to show that everyone has done stupid things, and everyone can learn from them. He doesn't try to hide his mistakes like so many politicians. He realizes that he is human. I do agree with other reviewers that the transition between Carol McCain and Cindy McCain is obscure. I do know that there are a lot of rumors surrounding it, and that Carol McCain has remained close to him throughout everything, even up to his run for president. I agree that I'd be interested in hearing her side, since during Vietnam she went through as much pain as her ex-husband. I surely hope that McCain will run for commander-in-chief again. In 4 years, maybe enough voters will of read this book so they see who they should be voting for.
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Summary: Winner
Review: Faith of my Fathers is truely remarkable. Senator McCain always had to be one step ahead of the next person in order to "measure up" to what his grandfather and father were: Heroes! In this, his life story he truely did. Surviving what most of ordinary citizins could not, he became one of the heroes of a time that most Americans would like to forget. This book is one that I could not put down and would have to say is truely a Winner!
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Summary: Indeed a stirring story
Review: Fact or fiction Senator McCain's story is excellent. I believe it is true. But now he is kind of like a "one trick pony". Still he has an edge on George W. Bush, no matter what measurement you use.
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Summary: Guide of courage and honor
Review: Powerful and splendid! This book is a guide of courage and honor, for college students and all Americans. From the indiscretion of his youthful past to the courage exhibited during his POW years, McCain's character is worth more than emulating. It should inspire us all to be better citizens, unselfish and look after those around us. McCain would have made a great president.
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Summary: Incredible story of one-dimensional family
Review: As fascinating as McCain's story is, I wish he had revealed more about the personal interactions among his family members. They all seemed tailor-made for the military but they seemed to resemble automatons in their relationships. Don't get me wrong, I admire their devotion to our country and they are exactly the kind of men anyone would want to fight for us but the mother in me suffers for John McCain and his fathers. If that's how it is in military families, I pity their children. I kept wondering if he had to write this book as a catharsis for all the pain he endured, to justify his fathers philosophy. I don't belittle the book, it taught me alot, I just wanted to see how he functioned outside the military. I was really disappointed that there was no reunion scene of any kind--after wading through those years of prison with him, I really wanted to see him have some happiness. (I wish his ex-wife would write her side of the story.) I would vote for McCain again though!
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Summary: A true American Hero
Review: An inspiring story of a real-life hero! Parents and teachers looking for a role model from their children should look no further than to Senator John S. McCain. As I read of how he turned down an early release from the torture and abuse he suffered at the hands of his captors I cringed. What a man, what a story, what a family!
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Summary: A Hero's Hero
Review: John McCain is not your average U.S. senator. The recent election proved that. If you liked the firey John McCain you witnessed on the campaign trail, you'll see even more of him in his new book. Whether you approve or disapprove of Senator McCain, it's hard to deny his bravery and heroism in the "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam war. Actually, all the McCain men seemingly drip with heroism since they have fought and died for this country since the Revolution. One of the lesser known stories in this excellent book involves the Senator's first wife, Carol. During his captivity, she fought her own private war following severe injuries in a car crash. In spite of her debilitating injuries, she refused to inform her POW husband until his release. Mr. McCain says Carol McCain is the bravest woman he has ever known. While I didn't necessarily want to know about so many of his female conquests while at the Naval Academy, at least he makes no pretenses about who he is. Read this book, then look around and see how many men you know who would display such patriotism at such a high cost.
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Summary: Not a Saint, but a Real American
Review: "The book gives an insight to Senator McCain'
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