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McCain's Promise

Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope

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Is John McCain "For Real?" That's the question David Foster Wallace set out to explore when he first climbed aboard Senator McCain's campaign caravan in February 2000. It was a moment when Mccain was increasingly perceived as a harbinger of change, the anticandidate whose goal was "to inspire young Americans to devote themselves to causes greater than their own self-interest." And many young Americans were beginning to take notice. ... more

About Author

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion and the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.


Jacob Weisberg is an editor of Slate magazine, a columnist for the Financial Times, and a frequent commentator on National Public Radio. His writings have also appeared in The New Republic, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the New York Times. His books include the bestselling Bushisms series and the 2008 bestseller The Bush Tragedy.

Audio and Video

Hachette Audio
Category:
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Format:
AUDIO BOOK
Subformat:
DOWNLOADABLE (AUDIO)
Edition:
Unabridged
Publish Date:
8/26/2008
Price:
$12.98/$14.50
ISBN:
9781600245336
Pages:
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