Preface - Chapter 6 Summary and Analysis

"Faith of My Fathers" by John McCain with Mark Salter is a memoir that highlights John McCain's ancestry, focusing primarily on his grandfather, father, and on his own life. Not glamorizing their existence, this book is a real account of the triumphs and pitfalls of the military men. It carries the reader through wartime strategies from the First World War through the Vietnam war.

In the Preface, McCain explained why he decided to write this book. He wrote about the difficulty he had in choosing how to document the lives of his heroes, his grandfather the naval aviator, and his father the submariner. McCain talked about what it was like to be raised in a family focused on the military. The men in his family had been raised to go to war for two centuries, serving as...