September 19, 2008
In the Father's House
Honor and identity in the candidates' memoirs
Amid the spectacle of the presidential campaign, it is easy to forget that Barack Obama and John McCain have written highly engaging memoirs. Both men regularly talk about their life stories, but their books have played an unusually powerful role in defining and launching their candidacies. The titles of the memoirs — Obama's Dreams from My Father and McCain's Faith of My Fathers — are tantalizingly close. But the
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