John McCain’s Little Golden Book

By Neal 

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Eat the Press correspondent Rachel Sklar didn’t just go to Meghan McCain‘s book party Monday night, she took pictures of just about every page of My Dad, John McCain, the twentysomething blogger’s new children’s book. “What I find interesting about this book is the timing of its publication and how closely it resembles campaign literature,” Sklar writes—something of an understatement, when you see the full through-line. If the Republican National Convention isn’t sticking these pages up on the jumbotron in the main auditorium between acts, they’re missing a perfect opportunity…

(And, yes, you’re right: “Little Golden Book” is currently a Random House brand. But it was launched at Simon & Schuster, Meghan McCain’s publisher, back in 1942.)