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 enlarge | Authors: John Mccain, Mark Salter
Publisher: Random House
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 340250
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1400064120
Dewey Decimal Number: 170.44
EAN: 9781400064120
ASIN: 1400064120
Publication Date: October 25, 2005
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 Very well written, lot of information about many good people May 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very good book. His selections tell much about John McCain. My thoughts about him are now very, very high. He wrote the best I have ever read about Pat Tillman. His death was so sad I did not want to read more about him, but what John said was touching. He said, Sojourner Truth, she taught us how to be Americans. I read several books about Winston Churchill and John Wooden, but learned new great thoughts & information about both and many others.
His Father, at the end of the day would stand at the north end of the base he was at, alone, looking toward where his son was prisoner of war. He admired wooden a lot, John McCain regretted missing many of his great games. {Our putrid media loves to show another candidate trying to play basketball, (badly) and bowling a 37. How does an adult bowl a 37?}. John McCain wasn't able to polish his basketball game and not even watch a game while he was keeping us free, when he was not free.
Great book for all adults. Great book to help children grow to be great, happy adults.
Great book for kids 10-16 May 2, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great book of heroes, especially for kids 10-16. I am reading them to my 10 year old son. You wouldn't want to go much younger, because McCain does deal with incredible hardships some of these people went through, some of which younger kids just wouldn't understand. It's well written, and it consistently comes back to the value of having honor. Kids need more of this. And by the way, this is a great read for adults too--really inspirational.
This is the most enjoyable book I have read in years! March 30, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I absolutely loved this book and plan to send it to others as a gift that keeps on giving. The book is filled with short biographies of 34 historical characters. It was broken down by those who demonstrated honor, purpose, strength, understanding, judgment, creativity, and love. These are colorful people of character who led interesting lives and impacted the lives of countless others. It provides what I like to call incidental learning. You read about the lives of others and effortlessly about history, character, and so much more. If you liked this style of writing and learning, I suggest that you also read: Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer I loved it too.
Within its 297 extremely readable pages, John McCain's story is told, as just one of the interesting biographies in this wonderful book! Buy it today. You'll be glad you did.
 Let's start this with a little quiz March 20, 2008
4 out of 44 found this review helpful
1. What in tarnation was John McCain thinking when he said that the rules don't apply to him?
2. In view of his biggety perceptions, what does it make sense for us to do now?
3. Essay: Compare and contrast his publications to those of psychotic converts to simplism, focusing especially on who is more likely to take us over the edge of the abyss of Bonapartism.
Don't worry; I'll give you all the answers throughout the course of this review as well as a wealth of other information about John. With this review, I hope to make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: I, for one, like to speak of John as "crass". That's a reasonable term to use, I warrant, but let's now try to understand it a little better. For starters, he is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore!
The fact is, in John's quest to create an atmosphere that may temporarily energize or exhilarate, but which, at the same time, will pose the gravest of human threats he has left no destructive scheme unutilized. I will let John's record speak for itself. (Yes, John doesn't reck one whit about how others might feel, but that's a different story.) Rather than persuade you myself that his brain is a repository of useless up-to-the-minute ephemera, I decided to gather input from various independent observers: teachers, farmers, shopkeepers, doctors, and so forth. I've tried to get balanced and reasonably accurate views about his passive-aggressive indiscretions. For instance, a policeman I interviewed pointed out how John's most chauvinistic tactic is to fabricate a phony war between execrable, ribald barrators and the most impolitic sideshow barkers you'll ever see. This way, he can subjugate both groups into helping him endorse a complete system of leadership by mobocracy. I unmistakably don't want that to happen, which is why I'm telling you that John intends to create a new social class. Disdainful malcontents, disorderly schemers, and xenophobic, otiose wankers will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their habitues.
I hereby publicly condemn John's snivelling subliminal psywar campaigns. In doing so, I publicly proclaim that he likes to seem smarter than he really is. It therefore always amuses me whenever John cracks open a thesaurus, aims for intellectualism, misses, and lands squarely in a puddle of brutish frippery. Someone needs to knock some sense into him. Who's going to do it? John? I think not. Many the things I've talked about in this letter are obvious. We all know they're true. But still it's necessary for us to say them because you can hear the crwth's fremescent clangor every time John McCain tries to use mass organization as a system of integration and control.
Awesome tool for uderstanding good character and history! February 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am INSPIRED by this book. It is very ENJOYABLE AND MOTIVATING. While learning bits of WORLD HISTORY you learn about how making daily good choices carve people's character that lead to great things! Wonderful to share with your children especially around 9 and up. Having each section be only 5-7 pages...it is easy to pick up and read for 15-20 minutes and set back down. With four children that is a easy book for me to read! No matter what your political stance, you will be in awe of John Mcain. He is one of the world's most HUMBLE AND REPECTABLE MEN He has a smart concept of what is truly impt in life. He is a HERO in my book anyday!
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