John McCain was in the Hamptons last weekend attending a fund-raiser at the home of real estate developer Bill Mack. The $2,300 a plate cocktail party was organized by a committee that included New York Republican heavyweights Henry Kissinger, Georgette Mosbacher, publisher Steve Forbes and former Senator Alfonse D’Amato.
During the Q&A that followed his talk McCain was asked about his reading life.
“I am a voracious reader. I read all the time,” said McCain who carries three or four books with him all the time.
The three books currently on hand are:
“Smyrna,” by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, about the conflict between Greeks and Turks in 1922.
David Halberstam’s “The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War.”
and Robert Kagan’s “The Return of History and the End of Dreams.”
and finally McCain said this: “I read anything by Hemingway all the time. He’s my favorite author.”
Now if you were uncertain whether electing McCain means four more years of Bush look no further than his stunning pronouncement “I read anything by Hemingway all the time” – Now if that isn’t a pure Bushism…
Story by Larry Rohter at the New York Times political blog, The Caucus.