A ‘;moving and lucidly written memoir’ (The Wall Street Journal) of the late Senator John Mc Cain from one of his closest and most trusted confidants, friends, and political advisors.More so than almost anyone outside of Mc Cain’s immediate family, Mark Salter had unparalleled access to and served to influence the Senator’s thoughts and actions, cowriting seven books with him and acting as a valued confidant. Now, in The Luckiest Man, Salter draws on the storied facets of Mc Cain’s early biography as well as the later-in-life political philosophy for which the nation knew and loved him, delivering an intimate and comprehensive account of Mc Cain’s life and philosophy. Salter covers all the major events of Mc Cain’s lifehis peripatetic childhood, his naval servicebut introduces, too, aspects of the man that the public rarely saw and hardly knew. Woven throughout this narrative is also the story of Salter and Mc Cain’s close relationship, including how they met, and why their friendship stood the test of time in a political world known for its fickle personalities and frail bonds. Through Salter’s revealing and ‘;psychological portrait’ (The Washington Post) of one of our country’s finest public servants, Mc Cain emerges as both the man we knew him to be and also someone entirely new. Glimpses of his restlessness, his curiosity, his courage, and sentimentality are rendered with sensitivity and careas only Mark Salter could provide. The capstone to Salter’s intimate and decades-spanning time with the Senator, The Luckiest Man is the authoritative last word on the stories Mc Cain was too modest to tell himself and an influential life not soon to be forgotten.
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