http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/john_mccains_book_club In this week's book section, I read some of John McCain's favorite books. John McCain loves For Whom the Bell Tolls. He talks about Ernest Hemingway's Spanish Civil War novel and its hero Robert Jordan with a passionate adoration he's never even displayed for his own wife. "My number-one hero of all time!" McCain said on the campaign trail in 2007. "I am an incurable idealist and romantic. Robert Jordan is everything I ever wanted to be." According to a recent New York Times story, McCain tried to be Robert Jordan, imposing the narrative of Tolls onto his own... Copyright 2008 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:00:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss