New Cindy McCain memoir 'Stronger' set for April publication
Cindy McCain has a new memoir about her life with the late Sen. John McCain coming out on April 27.
"Big News!" McCain wrote Tuesday on Twitter.
"Stronger: Courage, Hope & Humor In My Life With John McCain" will focus on "her beloved husband, their thirty-eight-year marriage, and the trials and triumphs of a singular American life," according to a summary of the book on publisher Penguin Random House's website.
The memoir, which will be published by Penguin Random House's Crown Forum imprint, also covers Cindy's more personal battles.
"She is honest in revealing her own successes and missteps, discussing how she dealt with political attacks targeting her children, her battle with opioid addiction, and the wild whirl of campaigning for president," the Penguin Random House site says.
Cindy and John McCain, R-Ariz., were married from 1980 until his death on Aug. 25, 2018, at age 81. The couple had four children together, including ABC-TV political commentator Meghan McCain.
As a Navy aviator, John McCain was shot down in 1967 over North Vietnam and held as a prisoner of war for more than five years. He later was elected to six Senate terms from Arizona and was the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. With co-author Mark Salter, John McCain wrote several books, including three memoirs: "Faith of My Fathers" (1999), "Worth the Fighting For" (2002) and "The Restless Wave" (2018).
"My husband, John McCain, never viewed himself as larger than life — but he was," Cindy McCain says in a blurb on the book's web page. "He had more tenacity and resolve than anybody I ever met. Being with him didn’t hold me back — it gave me flight, a courage I never would have felt on my own."
Since her husband's death, Cindy McCain, an Arizona business leader, has emerged as a political power player herself. Last year, she crossed party lines to endorse Democrat Joe Biden over Republican President Donald Trump. Biden narrowly carried Arizona in the Nov. 3 election, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state since President Bill Clinton in 1996 and only the second since President Harry Truman in 1948.
In January, the Arizona Republican Party retaliated by formally censuring Cindy McCain along with former Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who also endorsed Biden over Trump for president. Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey also was censured by the conservative party activists.
"It is a high honor to be included in a group of Arizonans who have served our state and our nation so well...and who, like my late husband John, have been censured by the AZGOP," Cindy McCain said on Twitter at the time. "I’ll wear this as a badge of honor."
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