In ‘The Restless Wave,’ John McCain Says America Is Still Exceptional

Senator John McCain has sustained a long political career by seeming to have it both ways: praised as a fiery maverick when times are bland, and as a bipartisan consensus-seeker when they’re not.

• Jennifer Szalai
• The New York Times

This isn’t so much an accusation as an observation — one that McCain himself repeatedly alludes to in “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations,” his latest collaboration with his former chief-of…

The ailing McCain, who learned last year that he had brain cancer, makes clear it might also be their last.

The tough-guy…

• In ‘The Restless…