In the summer of 2011, McCain and Black embarked on the balls-out, cross-country tour. On the way, they spoke to politicians, gun fans, abortion-rights advocates and competitors, gay parents, flag burners, Muslims, poker players, Tea Partiers, Minutemen, veterans, teen moms, bikers, junk food workers, and a hooker or two. They toured the White colored House. They fired semiautomatic weaponry. They ceased and ate at every Olive Garden along the way. But mostly they talked to each other about their variations, their commonalities. It’s Chelsea Handler fits Hunter S. Thompson inside a politics cannonball run across America.