Volume 46, Number 16 · October 21, 1999
The Good Soldier
By Lars-Erik Nelson
Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
by John McCain, with Mark Salter
Random House, 349 pp., $25.00
John McCain: An American Odyssey
by Robert Timberg
Touchstone, 235 pp., $13.00 (paper)
On a tropical morning in 1957, the American destroyer USS Hunt was about to depart from Rio de Janeiro to complete its summer training cruise for Annapolis midshipmen, and one of them was missing. As the ship prepared to cast off, crew members peered over the side looking for their absent classmate. Then, five minutes before departure, a Mercedes sports car roared onto the pier, driven by one of Rio's most beautiful fashion models. The gull-wing doors popped up, and out from under appeared Midshipman John McCain. He kissed the model goodbye and, to the rowdy cheers of his shipmates, climbed aboard.
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