About this title: In February 2000 John Mc Cain was widely perceived as the voice of hope in American presidential politics: the "anti-candidate," the harbinger of change, the straight talker whose vigor and apparent authenticity were winning him support among disaffected voters from both parties and especially from young Americans. David Foster Wallace, ...
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Your search:Books»McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking about Hope(20 available copies)
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First paperback edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bay Back Books, New York
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316040532ISBN:0316040533
Description: NEW. Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope. 124pp. 21.0 cm. Blue wrappers with pictorial front cover. Foreword by Jacob Weisberg. New. "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 ... read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316040532ISBN:0316040533
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316040532ISBN:0316040533
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
"just fantastic. DFW is sorely missed. what's great about this book is that it's just as relevant after mccain's decade of losses. it's not a book about the 2000 campaign or mccain so much as it's a book about political reporters and field producers--written from the perspective of a fascinated bystander (DFW). i'd read it again now, even months after the 2008 election."
"DFW was asked to join the Straight Talk Express during the 2000 primaries. The way he talks about McCain sounds like he's talking about Obama, except that McCain failed to do what Obama has overwhelmingly accomplished. It puts the recent election into some very interesting perspective and helps to show where McCain went wrong. It's also a fascinating look into what it's like to be a journalist on the campaign trail. I both desperately want to and think it would be extraordinarily painful."
"I read this book, originally a long essay, for the late author, not the candidate. Still, this snap-shot from the 2000 campaign (specifically, from just after the post-New Hampshire afterglow through the first week or so of the brutally negative S.C. primary) makes one realize in a visceral, internalized way, as opposed to the obvious intellectual yes of course way, that McCain would have been a much better president than G.W. Bush. That our entire country would today be better off, and that those American values and interests that we all agree on, at least in an aspirational sense, would today be less tarnished. And I'll leave it to you to conclude which subset or subsets of the GOP establishment effectively ordained (hint) that lose-lose outcome (as the Republican party lost, too) by favoring Bush and disfavoring the more competent and, it would seem in 2000 at least, more honorable John McCain. About Wallace's writing, I liked it very much in the small dose here."
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