Faith of my Fathers

In this summary you will learn

• What roles John McCain’s grandfather and father played in his life
• What they accomplished in their stellar Navy careers
• How MaCain followed them into the Navy and became a POW in Vietnam
• What events shaped his beliefs

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Why you should read Faith of my Fathers

In this autobiography, 2008 Republican presidential contender and U.S. Senator John McCain discusses the people and events that shaped his prepolitical life. The book’s structure indicates his family’s influence. In fact, the first half is devoted to his grandfather’s military accomplishments and his relationships with his family, to his parents’ personalities and his father’s military career, and to McCain’s upbringing and education. Both his grandfather and father were four-star admirals, and he was raised to be a Navy man. McCain devotes the rest of the book to his captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. He gives a telling account of life as a POW, a horrific five years that affected him deeply and embedded his belief in duty, courage, individuality and comradeship. Readers who want to learn about McCain’s political development, his years in the U.S. Congress and his policy positions will have to look elsewhere; he doesn’t cover them here. Instead, via a family saga and a compelling war story, getAbstract finds that this will tell you what forces built McCain’s value system and his outstanding political career.

About the Author

John McCain has served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and has been a senator from Arizona since 1986. He has four children and seven grandchildren, and lives in Phoenix with his wife Cindy. Mark Salter has been McCain’s administrative assistant since 1993.