McCain has hope for US despite ‘challenges in the world’, says memoir co-author

The senator has doubts about Trump’s moral leadership, but thinks that the US will ‘get through it’, says Mark Salter

The Restless Wave was not meant to be John McCain’s last book. But when the six-term Republican senator from Arizona was diagnosed with brain cancer, what might have been a distillation of the McCain Doctrine evolved into a memoir that offers reflections on his career and a robust defense of the world order he championed for more than three decades in Congress.

“He wanted it to be more reflective and more personal,” said Mark Salter, McCain’s former chief of staff and co-author of The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations, in an interview this week. “Above all he wanted to convey how fortunate he felt he was for being able to serve this country for 60 years in the navy and then Congress.”

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