72 Things Younger Than John McCain or Surrender Is Not an Option

72 Things Younger Than John McCain

Author: Joe Quint

"I have the courage, the wisdom, the experience, and most importantly, the oldness necessary."
-- John McCain, Saturday Night Live, May 17, 2008
John McCain may have been joking during his guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, but it is true that, if elected, at age 72 he will have more oldness on his side than any person ever inaugurated as a first-term president of the United States.
72 Things Younger Than John McCain takes a lighthearted look at all that's come into existence since John McCain was born so many, many, many years ago, including:
The Jefferson Memorial
Duct Tape
Nachos
Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Area Codes
Social Security
Based on Joe Quint's popular blog, 72 Things Younger Than John McCain also contains humorous photos and interesting trivia that highlight the events, milestones, inventions, and people that make up American pop-culture history since McCain was born on August 29, 1936. There's also a bonus section (albeit a very short one) of Things Older Than McCain!

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Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations

Author: John Bolton

With no-holds-barred candor, the former ambassador to the United Nations takes readers behind the scenes at the UN and the U.S. State Department and reveals why his efforts to defend American interests and reform the UN resulted in controversy. He also shows how the U.S. can lead the way to a more realistic global security arrangement for the twenty-first century and identifies the next generation of threats to America.
In this revealing memoir, John Bolton recounts his appointment in 2005 as Ambassador to the United Nations, his headline-making Senate confirmation battle, and his sixteen-month tenure at the United Nations. Bolton offers keen insight into such international crises as North Korea's nuclear test, Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the genocide in Darfur, the negotiation that produced the controversial end of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, and more. Chronicling both his successes and frustrations in taking a hard line against weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferators, terrorists, and rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, he also exposes the operational inadequacies that hinder the UN's effectiveness in international diplomacy and its bias against Israel and the United States. At home, he criticizes the bureaucratic inertia in the U.S. State Department that can undermine presidential policy.
This fascinating chronicle of the career of one of America's outstanding statesmen who has fought to preserve American sovereignty and strength at home and abroad now contains a new afterword, "Challenges for the Next President."

Table of Contents:

Early Days     1
The Reagan Revolution and the Bush 41 Thermidor     18
Cutting Gulliver Loose: Protecting American Sovereignty in Good Deals and Bad     47
Following the Yellow Cake Road on North Korea     99
Leaving the Driving to the EU: Negotiations Uber Alles with Iran     130
Why Do I Want This Job?     165
Arriving at the UN: Fear and Loathing in New York     194
Sisyphus in the Twilight Zone: Fixing the Broken Institution, or Trying To     220
As Good as It Gets: The Security Council     246
Electing the New Secretary General: Ban Ki-moon Is Coming to Town     273
Security Council Successes on North Korea     291
Iran in the Security Council: The EU-3 Find New Ways to Give In     314
Darfur and the Weakness of UN Peacekeeping in Africa     341
Israel and Lebanon: Surrender as a Matter of High Principle at the UN     371
Recessional     413
Free at Last: Back to the Firing Line     429
Afterword: Challenges for the Next President     457
Index     475