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02392aim a2200385 a 4500 001 09C20C0CDE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20101023010128 008 100805s2007 000 0 eng u 020 $a 9781415947784 020 $a 1415947783 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)\9781415947784 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 040 $a TEFOD $d SILO 100 1 $a McCain, John, 1936- 245 1 $a Worth the fighting for [electronic resource] : $b a memoir $c John McCain. 260 $a New York $b Books on Tape $c 2007. 300 $a Mode of access: $b World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 266108 KB). 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Duration: 18:30:44. 500 $a Title from: Title details screen. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Read by Dan Cashman. 520 $a In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of my fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is the rest of his story, about his great American journey from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying run for the presidency, interwoven with heartfelt portraits of the mavericks who have inspired him through the years--Ted Williams, Theodore Roosevelt, visionary aviation proponent Billy Mitchell, Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata!, and, most indelibly, Robert Jordan. It was Jordan, Hemingway's protagonist in For whom the bell tolls, who showed McCain the ideals of heroism and sacrifice, stoicism and redemption, and why certain causes, despite the costs, are ... Worth the fighting for. After five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, naval aviator John McCain returned home a changed man. 650 $a Audiobooks. 650 $a Legislators $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a McCain, John, 1936- 650 $a United States $x 1981-1989. $x 1981-1989. 650 $a United States $x 1989- $x 1989- 650 $a United States. Congress. Senate $x Biography. 700 $a Books on Tape, Inc. 700 $a Cashman, Dan. 856 $u http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=92AC8F7F-86D7-4F3E-A425-033050A25292 $3 URL 941 $a 2 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20110721010523.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20101023011136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=09C20C0CDE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search