Dirty Sexy Politics by Meghan McCainMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This audiobook is narrated by the author and she could have gotten someone better for that role. Here hurried, pressured speech patterns and stumbly over some pronunciation in her "own" writing ("admirable" with a long "i", etc.) makes me wonder if she is really a co-author.
That aside, this is a unique view into the failed McCain campaign and an authentic window into a 17-month road trip with the press where there is not enough privacy for a meltdown, which is an embarrassing issue for Meghan. This is really about the life on the campaign trail and the disruption to personal and family life such a role brings. As such, this a personal, not political memoir and thus probably has much in common with a rock band roadie memoir. Except, instead of salacious (she was basically abstinent during the period of "dirty, sexy politics") we get the petty flare-ups of close quarters living.
Two very interesting dimensions was the injection of the Palins and Meghan being underwhelmed if not distrustful of Sarah Palin and the insider's view of when during the 2000 Republican presidential primary, Senator John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign implying that he had fathered a black child out of wedlock. (McCain's adopted daughter is a dark-skinned child from Bangladesh). Meghan talks about the pain and grief caused by the negative push poll and later encountering the Vanity Fair article “The Trashing of John McCain” by Richard Gooding which laid the blame on the Bush camp and the Christian Coalition.
This "daughter of" provides a witty and revealing look into the Straight Talk Express and the rise and fall of John McCain's run at the Oval Office.
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