Career
He is portrayed as a sympathetic figure by actor Jamey Sheridan in the 2012 Home Box Office production of Game Change for his role in the latter months of McCain"s unsuccessful 2008 Presidential campaign. 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 13 Soldiers: Personal History of Americans at war, Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver life, Faith of My Fathers, Worth the Fighting Foreign, Character is Destiny, and Hard Call: Great Decisions and the Extraordinary People Who Made Them. Some point to Salter as the author of the anonymously written book "O: A Presidential Novel.".
