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3 unusual facts about Faith of My Fathers


George Thomas Coker

Coker is one of the names of fellow POW's that future Senator John McCain recites in the 2005 film, Faith of My Fathers; a film based on the 1999 McCain memoir of the same title, Faith of My Fathers.

Mark Salter

Aside from having worked on Senator McCain's staff for 19 years (as of 2008), Salter has also written, in collaboration with McCain, the books Why Courage Matters, Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Character is Destiny, and "Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them".

Worth the Fighting For

The book picks up where McCain's first memoir, Faith of My Fathers, left off, with his return to the United States following his release as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.


Living History

This is not unusual for political autobiographies, but in the same period some other political figures were given co-writing credit, as for instance fellow Senator John Edwards gave to writer John Auchard on his book Four Trials and fellow Senator John McCain gave to administrative assistant Mark Salter on his books Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting For, Why Courage Matters, and Character Is Destiny.


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