New York Times Review of the book by John McCain, "The Restless Wave" -- Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

Excerpts from a review by Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times, of the newest book by John McCain, “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations” :

“We are living in the land of the free, the land where anything is possible, the land of the immigrant’s dream, the land with the storied past forgotten in the rush to the imagined future, the land that repairs and reinvents itself,” he [McCain] writes. “We are blessed, and in turn, we have been a blessing to humanity.”...

Assigning a special nobility to his country’s role abroad, even (or especially) now, is a way for McCain to keep believing that Americans are ultimately united, instead of terribly divided. Domestic politics are too disappointing, too grinding, too inglorious. “The Restless Wave” is a wistful book; McCain wants to rally Americans around helping an imperiled world, rather than accept that the call might be coming from inside the house.