McCain

Preface: The Unexamined Candidate
Cowboys and Indians
The Defiant One
The Opportunist
The 12-Step Guide to Becoming President
Maverick vs."Maverick"Forgive Them, Father, For I Have Sinned
Transcendental Blues
Theodore Redux
All War, All the Time
The Crooked Talk Express
Deathbed Conversion
Anger Management
The Missing Step

Matt Welch is the Assistant Editorial Pages Editor of the Los Angeles Times. From 2002 to 2005 he was an Associate Editor at Reason magazine, where he wrote a regular column and he was the American politics columnist for Canada's National Post from 2001 to 2004. His work has appeared in such politically diverse outlets as Salon.com, the American Spectator, AlterNet, the Orange County Register, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Welch also maintains a popular weblog at mattwelch.com. He lives in Los Angeles.

'If the world doesn't know who Republican presidential nominee John McCain is as yet, it certainly will do whatever happens in the US elections on 4th November. Welch, editor of Reason Magazine, has produced a sober-minded biography that uncovers the 71-year-old Arizona senator's political life and the beliefs that could soon make him the most powerful man in the world.' - <EM>The Big Issue</EM> 'How the journalistic elite got taken for a ride on the Straight Talk Express is one of the revelatory sagas of modern-day Washington. Matt Welch has the audacity to think that John McCain's views matter, not only his legends, and he smokes out McCain with gusto. You don't have to follow him every inch of the way into libertarian politics - as I do not - to be dazzled by the light he casts on a telling tragedy of American politics.' - Todd Gitlin, author of<EM> The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals</EM>'John McCain's love affair with the news media is a decade old. But McCain makes clear that that love affair is over.'- Glenn Reynolds, author of <EM>An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths</EM>, and blogger at InstapunditPraise for Matt Welch's Op-Ed piece on John McCain in the Los Angeles Times, "Do We Really Need Another T.R.?":'Congratulations to the LAT's Matt Welch for this morning's penetrating column on John McCain...Listen up, pundits. Matt Welch has sent you a signal. It won't kill you to look into the mind of the desert angel and see what he thinks.'- Todd Gitlin, author of <EM>The Intellectuals and the Flag</EM> 'Matt Welch of the Los Angeles Times does a significant public service in exposing John McCain's intrusive, statist agenda.' - Doug Bandow, author of <EM>Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire</EM> 'Kudos to Matt Welch for managing to reveal some