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...hallway outside his hotel room that morning, McCain turned to his closest aide, Mark Salter. "We're going to lose this, aren't we?" McCain asked. Salter didn't have to answer. Inside the room, people started eating cold pizza from the night before, shaking their heads over reports that the state G.O.P had failed to open 21 polling places in black areas of Greenville. Later the team sat down and went over the exit polling. The candidate wanted to know about the attacks, so his ally, South Carolina Representative Lindsey Graham, ran through the list of the body blows...
...Mark Salter, the writer who is nearly as close to the candidate as any of McCain's children, who delivered the good news that the Arizona Senator might be not just winning but winning huge--men and women, young and old, wild-eyed libertarian independents and bluenosed conservative Republicans...
...responded Salter. "Like you could be President...
Faith of My Fathers is ostensibly a three-generation family memoir, the story not just of McCain but also of his father and grandfather, both of whom were four-star admirals. But McCain is the subject. Co-written by Mark Salter, the Senator's longtime aide, the book portrays a rebellious youth who reveres his family's military tradition but chafes against authority. As a child, McCain displays a petulance that leads him, when angry, to hold his breath until he blacks out. As a student, McCain recounts, "I grew more determined to assert my crude individualism." At the Naval...
...more often, Salter's poems have a certain freshness, using everyday occurences as gateways to show the reader paths of ideas he never would guessed at. At one point, she hears children playing the game Marco Polo and speaks of the sounds as "heightened with the importance of the half-understood." Salter's poems make us feel that everything around us is only half-understood, that everything has depths. She does not explore all these depths, but simply shows a bit of what she sees behind these objects, what they make her think of. In this way, she heightens...