Book cover of "Gook."

New book focuses on
McCain’s disturbing attitudes toward race and war.

“I hate the gooks,” said John McCain in February 2000, when asked about his continued use of the racial slur. “I will hate them as long as I live.”

Paul Revere Books releases on July 4 a political exposé, a real-life mystery, and a manifesto on race and war, all in one volume. The book is "Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters."

The mystery is this: Is John McCain secretly a white supremacist? No American wants to believe it, but one cannot help asking this question after reading "Gook."

The racial slur “gook” has a secret history of its own, evolving from war to war, from the U.S. conquest of the Philippines to its occupation of Haiti, to North African colonial conflicts, to the Korean War. The epithet reached a crescendo during the Vietnam War and then infiltrated the common American vocabulary.

Asian American author Irwin A. Tang writes of his own frightening run-ins with the KKK as a child, but he pulls no punches in chronicling the disturbing history of John McCain’s relationships with white supremacists and racist, warmongering preachers.

“John McCain supported the rescinding of Martin Luther King Day while sending his own money to terrorists in Nicaragua,” said Tang. “That sums up the entire notion of the word ‘gook.’ Some people, whether they are black Americans or Asian or Latino peasants, are simply subhuman to the most powerful, most cynical politicians.”

Gook examines McCain’s partnering with leading white supremacist Richard Quinn, as well as McCain’s endorsement of hate group lecturer George Wallace, Jr. for lieutenant governor, both actions fitting with his support for the Confederate flag as an official state symbol.

McCain’s sought a close relationship with Pastor John Hagee. Both men seem to link religion with a need to enter wars. In McCain’s words, it is “our sacred duty” to “sacrifice” ourselves in order to “impart our values upon humanity.” McCain lobbied for an Iraq invasion long George W. Bush’s presidency and has recently promised more wars. Finally, and perhaps most disturbing, McCain has hired at the highest levels of his campaign lobbyists for the world’s worst dictators.

“John McCain spit out the slur ‘gook’ shamelessly in the media for years, that is, until he feared sabotaging his own presidential ambitions,” says Tang. “The true McCain is hidden from us because he will do whatever it takes to become president. Americans will be subjected to his true feelings about race and war only when he takes power.” Tang says he first started researching McCain’s record when he noticed how enamored his liberal friends were with the Arizona senator.

Irwin Tang is the author/co-author of five books, including the groundbreaking history Asian Texans: Our Histories and Our Lives. The Austin Chronicle called Tang’s How I Became a Black Man and Other Metamorphoses “brilliant and heartbreaking.” He is best known for a public tangle over race with Shaquille O’Neal. Gook is available at www.irwinbooks.com and from Ingram and Baker & Taylor book distributors; ISBN 0967943343.

For review copies, interviews, talks, or book cover images, please call 512.554.5431 or email Paul Revere Books at  the.it.works.publishing@gmail.com.

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