Worth the Fighting For: A Memoir - 1st Edition/1st Printing

New York: Random House. Fine in Fine dust jacket. [2002]. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0375505423 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with minor edgewear; After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man. Regaining his health and flight-eligibility status, he resumed his military career, commanding carrier pilots and serving as the navy’s liaison to what is sometimes ironically called the world’s most exclusive club, the United States Senate. Accompanying Senators John Tower and Henry "Scoop" Jackson on international trips, McCain began his political education in the company of two masters, leaders whose standards he would strive to maintain upon his election to the U. S. Congress. There, he learned valuable lessons in cooperation from a good-humored congressman from the other party, Morris Udall. In 1986, McCain was elected to the U. S. Senate, inheriting the seat of another role model, Barry Goldwater; B & W Photographs; 8vo; 396 pages .