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 enlarge | Authors: John Mccain, Marshall Salter
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 204097
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1400060303
Dewey Decimal Number: 179.6
EAN: 9781400060306
ASIN: 1400060303
Publication Date: April 13, 2004
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Fear is the opportunity or courage September 15, 2008
I admire John McCain for a number of reasons, and I found this book to be another.
The book "Why Courage Matters" is not really about his personal experiences in the Navy, the Hanoi Hilton, or the Keating 5 examination. It was about what other people have done in the face of real fear and discouragement, and how the stood-up to their problems and their oppressors, and how they ultimately persevered.
These noted people were not politicians or important people by how we might judge an important person today. These stories of courage are about regular people ... people who have similar hopes and aspirations as most all of us do, and how they dealt with adversity with hope, courage and determination.
The book really is an inspiration, and gives us hope that when and if the time may come when we face a significant fear, we will find our own courage and strength to stand up to the adversity, and to remain strong.
 Will the Real John McCain stand up against the lobbyists who are running his campaign? September 11, 2008
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
John McCain has pledged that, if he and Sarah are elected, he would end the revolving-door practice of administration officials leaving office for lucrative lobbying jobs.
Obama has also pledged to stop the revolving door if elected. He has also declined to take donations from lobbyists; McCain has not.
Still, during McCain's nearly 25 years in Congress, the revolving door has remained open. As his aides have moved downtown from Capitol Hill, they've drawn from their experience on the senator's personal staff or on his key committees: Armed Services, Commerce and Indian Affairs.
Here's some examples:
* Mark Buse went from being staff director of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation when McCain chaired it to becoming a lobbyist at two firms, ML Strategies and Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo. His clients included many companies with issues before the committee, including Northwest Airlines, AT&T Wireless, Cablevision and Exxon Mobil Corp. This year, Buse returned to work for McCain as chief of staff of his Senate office.
* John D. Desser was a staffer in McCain's Senate office and was a health policy aide in his unsuccessful 2000 presidential campaign.
After that, he lobbied for the health insurance, chemical, coal and pharmaceutical industries. From there, he was deputy assistant secretary for health policy at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Bush administration and has since gone back to the private sector as vice president of public policy and government affairs for eHealth, an online health insurance company.
* After serving as counsel for McCain's Senate Commerce committee, Sloan W. Rappoport moved on to the Bush administration and then to K Street. Rappoport is now a vice president of the Downey McGrath Group, where he lobbies for legalization of Internet poker and for a group promoting offshore oil drilling.
* John W. Timmons served as legislative counsel for McCain, working on commerce, energy and environmental issues. Since then, Timmons has founded his own lobbying firm that represents clients under Commerce committee jurisdiction, including AT&T, the Air Transport Association, the Association of American Railroads and TW Telecom, formerly Time Warner Telecom.
* Pablo Chavez, a former chief counsel to McCain, is now an advocate for Google, where his experience on the Commerce Committee doubtless comes in handy. Last year, he fought off objections to the acquisition of Internet marketing giant DoubleClick and is now working on the contentious issue of Net neutrality with hardware providers such as AT&T and the regional Bell companies
* David Crane, a former McCain Commerce committee aide, notes in his lobbying firm biography that, as an aide, he "developed and implemented legislative and communications strategies and tactics to secure passage of Senator McCain's legislative agenda." He has worked in three K Street firms, representing clients on financial services, homeland security and trade issues. He now runs the firm Quadripoint Strategies.
* Former McCain chief of staff and Commerce committee counsel Christopher Koch is now the McCain campaign's policy coordinator. In between holding those positions, he was a lobbyist. Before joining the campaign, Koch was president and chief executive officer of the World Shipping Council, a lobbying trade group that represents about 40 foreign and domestic ocean transport companies. In the first Bush administration, he was chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. And in the second Bush administration, as chairman of the Department of Homeland Security's National Maritime Security Advisory Committee, he helped craft port security policy.
* Ann Sauer worked for the Senate Armed Services Committee and later became vice president of Washington operations for Lockheed Martin. The world's largest defense company has spent more than $8 million this year on lobbying, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
* After working as a Senate aide for McCain, Michael Jimenez set up shop as a lobbyist. His clients include Pinnacle West, and he advocates for the Arizona-based utility on nuclear and energy issues, according to Senate records.
* Former McCain legislative assistant Sonya Sotak now works for drug giant Eli Lilly. According to Senate filings, she's lobbying on issues relating to health care reform, drug pricing in Europe and an initiative to require drug companies to disclose their payments to doctors.
* Robert Fisher, a former telecommunications adviser to McCain, went on to lobby for Clear Channel Worldwide and Verizon.
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Three of the McCain-staffers-turned-lobbyists - Rappoport, Timmons and Fisher - have bundled thousands of dollars in campaign donations for McCain's presidential bid, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Rappoport alone has gathered $250,000 to $500,000, the center said.
why AMERICA matters September 8, 2008
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
McCain may be the charismatic, youthful frontrunner in this contest, but I ask you all: DO WE REALLY KNOW WHO THIS MAN IS? I don't mean to sound racist, but I think it's dangerous to overlook his exotic and nearly unpronounceable last name. Sure, we're a nation of immigrants, but "McCain" should sound off warning bells in all of us: if we get attacked by terrorists, will this guy really have our nation's best interests at heart? My guess is that he'll be doing drunken high-kicks around the blarney stone after he squanders the day's wages, eats the last potato, and yells some mysterious passages from the Quran. Read this book, keep an open mind, but do not let his elevated rhetoric and silver tongue woo you into trusting him!
 An Uplifting Read from an American Hero September 1, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This country owes John McCain a great deal of debt. Not only for his military service or his Senate work but also for the great and couragous books he writes.
"Why Courage Matters" is an example of his passion for helping others through tough times and instilling a greater understanding of the world in them. He tells a number of couragous stories of people throughout time who deserve respect and honor and even goes on to explain some of the situations he himself went through during his imprisoment in the Vietnam War and how he got through them. John McCain is a great writer and an American Hero and this book serves as a testament to that.
Disjointed... August 25, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is an interesting collection of stories of courageous acts. In between the stories McCain rambles about the meaning of courage. The ramblings sort of meander and are not well-structured. This would have been a better book if it were marketed solely as a collection of courageous stories, possibly including McCain's own story, and possibly with a BRIEF, cogent essay at the end on his thoughts on courage.
I am an avid reader and a McCain fan, but this book was difficult, and boring to read, and brought him down a notch in my estimation. (My parents, both avid readers of fiction, non-fiction and biographies, passed the book on to me, and later confessed that they passed it on for the same reason).
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