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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Barry Goldwater, Dan Quayle, John McCain, Zane Grey, Stephenie Meyer, Barbara Kingsolver, Meghan McCain, Chalmers Johnson, Gordon Lish, Doug Stanhope, Glendon Swarthout, Joe Hayes, Alan Dean Foster, William Greenleaf, Jim Harrison, Victor Reppert, Jeffrey S. Medkeff, Monica Crowley, Rodney Glassman, Marilyn Quayle, Jacqui Jacoby, Fred Kabotie, Barry Hughart, Mark Harris, Dennis DeConcini, Tom Miller, Sharlot Hall, Sara Shepard, Michael Collier, T. R. Hummer, Adam Johnson, Joy Williams, Jeannette Walls, Jess Hartley, Ken Lamberton, Jack O'Connor, Ryan David Jahn, Susan Sackett, Barbara Park, Alfredo Vea, Jr., Peter Iverson, Mary Schmich, J. A. Jance, Clarence Budington Kelland, Norm Frauenheim, Katie Lee, Sally Ball, Sari Horwitz, Richard Siken, Bentley Little, Betty Webb, Richard Shelton, Edwin Cranston, T. M. McNally, Jerry Newport, Dary Matera, Stacey Richter, Mario Suarez, Jeannine Savard, Levi S. Peterson, Jennifer Ward, Baxter Black, Vee F. Browne. Excerpt: John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election. McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into the United States Navy, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967, while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, seriously injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973. McCain experienced episodes of torture, and refused an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer. His war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981 and moved to Ari...
