Volume 49, Number 16 · October 24, 2002
The Non-Conformist
By Russell Baker
Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir
by John McCain
Random House, 396 pp., $25.95
Citizen McCain
by Elizabeth Drew
Simon and Schuster, 181 pp., $23.00
John McCain's first hero was Robert Jordan, the hero of Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway's novel ends with Jordan dying in a struggle for what he believes to be a good cause. The pages of McCain's Worth the Fighting For (written with the help of Mark Salter) are strewn with tributes to his several heroes, and they are an odd collection for a politician. With the exception of Ted Williams, they are all fighters for political causes, and most lose in the end.
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