role to that of Boswell. He was portrayed by actor Jamey Sheridan in the 2012 HBO production of Game Change for his role in the latter months of McCain's unsuccessful 2008 Presidential campaign. Following the 2008 campaign loss, Salter became less of a presence in the McCain political operation. In 2020, Salter and his wife endorsed McCain's vice presidential opponent Joe Biden for president. Published works Aside from having worked on Senator McCain's staff for 19 years (as of 2008), Salter has also written, in collaboration with McCain, the books Thirteen Soldiers: A Personal History of Americans at War (2014) Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life (2004) Faith of My Fathers (1999) Worth the Fighting For (2002) Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember (2005) Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them (2007) The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations (2018) McCain has always given Salter front-cover credit for his writing work, and also splits income from the books with Salter evenly. That even split is a rarity in the political world, which often uses flat-rate ghostwriters, and allowed Salter and his wife—herself a former secretary on McCain's staff—to set up a second residence in Maine. In 2011, Mark Halperin wrote in Time magazine that Salter was the author of the anonymously written 2011 book O: A Presidential Novel. After McCain's death, Salter published a memoir of his time with McCain called The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain (2020). Personal life Salter lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Diane; they have two daughters. In May 2016 Salter announced he would support Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election, rather than presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. References 1955 births 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American political writers American speechwriters Living people Writers from Alexandria, Virginia Writers from Davenport, Iowa Virginia Republicans 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers