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But this book is extraordinary. McCain's father AND grandfather were admirals, but he never felt affection for or from them. He enrolled in the Naval Academy because everyone always assumed he would, and spent the four years hating the casual sadism of the midshipmen and the idiocy of military life. He drank, and womanized, and barely graduated fourth from bottom of his class.

Then his plane shot down over North Vietnam. The rash maverick who didn't care about anything learned about honor and duty while spending years in a POW camp being tortured by the NVA, suffering injuries which trouble him to this day.

I won't vote for him again, but the man is a hero. Fer'real, yo.]]>