My Dad, John McCain

My Dad, John McCain
Author(s)	Meghan McCain
Cover artist	Dan Andreasen
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Children's literature
Publisher	Aladdin
Publication date	2008
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	32
ISBN	1416975284
OCLC Number	230206464
Dewey Decimal	328.73092 B 22
LC Classification	E840.8.M26 M38 2008

My Dad, John McCain is an illustrated children's book based on the life of John McCain. Written by his daughter, Meghan McCain, and published through Aladdin Paperbacks, it was released on September 2, 2008. The book's images were illustrated by Dan Andreasen. The book was intended to support John McCain's candidacy for President of the United States in 2008.

Book

“	Eight years later, he decided to run for president again. Things didn’t look great at first. His campaign nearly ran out of money. People were starting to say he didn't have a chance. But my dad never gives up.	”
	— Meghan McCain in My Dad, John McCain

The book focuses on John McCain's United States military service and his presidential run.^[1] Although the book is aimed at children, it deals with John McCain's capture and imprisonment as a prisoner of war for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, and even depicts risqué scenes of John McCain being poked with hot iron prods as well as a man being stabbed repeatedly with a small knife by a Vietcong insurgent. For its initial pressing, over 200,000 copies were printed.^[2] The book has been described as "less a children's book than one written for wide-eyed adults with very nice drawings."^[2]

References

1. ^ MSNBC:Children’s book excerpt: ‘My Dad, John McCain’
2. ^ ^{a b} New York Times: A Major Book Signing by David Carr