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Article: Times on John McCain as Self-Styled Knot of Fictional Characters.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2008
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David Kirkpatrick has a piece in The New York Times today about the impact John McCain's five books have had on his self-image and political identity. The McCain we know today, Mr. Kirkpatrick writes, is one that came into existence around 1999, when he and his longtime speechwriter, Mark Salter, wrote his memoir, Faith of My Fathers, and in the process hatched the superhero he has been pretending to be throughout his campaign for the presidency.
As Mr. Kirkpatrick describes it:
Mr. Salter, taking a little literary license, assembled from Mr. McCain's recollections a neat narrative that he had never before articulated. It became a best seller, a television movie and the ...