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David Foster Wallace's novella-length article about John McCain's unsuccessful bid for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination (originally published in truncated form in Rolling Stone, and subsequently unabridged under the title "Up, Simba" in Wallace's nonfiction collection Consider the Lobster) receives a timely reissue in the wake of McCain's 2008 race for the White House. Fortunate enough to be accompanying the McCain 2000 camp around the time when it suddenly began to look like there was a serious chance that their candidate could garner the Republican nomination, Wallace explores the tipping point where an "anti-candidate" like McCain abruptly becomes a viable concern.
Wallace is principally interested in whether a politician's attempts to tell the truth and remain "real" are...