WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　McCain, with help from his administrative assistant Salter,
picks up where the bestselling Faith of My Fathers left off, after
his release from a North Vietnamese POW prison. After two decades
in Congress, he has plenty of stories to tell, beginning with his
first experiences on Capitol Hill as a navy liaison to the Senate,
where he became friends with men like Henry “Scoop” Jackson and
John Tower. (The latter friendship plays a crucial role in McCain’s
account of the battle over Tower’s 1989 nomination for defense
secretary.) He revisits the “Keating Five” affair that nearly
wrecked his career in the early ’90s, pointedly observing how the
investigating Senate committee left him dangling for political
reasons long after he’d been cleared of wrongdoing. There’s much
less on his 2000 presidential campaign than one might expect; a
single chapter lingers on a self-lacerating analysis of how he lost
the South Carolina primary. (He admits, “I doubt I shall have
reason or opportunity to try again” for the White House, and may
even consider retiring from the Senate.) Self-criticism is a
recurring motif, as the senator berates himself for speaking
recklessly or letting his temper get the best of him. He
nevertheless takes pride in his status as a maverick and pays
tribute to inspirational figures like Theodore Roosevelt, Ted
Williams and Robert Jordan, the fictional protagonist of
Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. Luckily for McCain, he’s such
an engaging storyteller most readers will readily accept these
digressions from his own remarkable history.