Gibson Square, the publishers behind Senator John McCain's new book, Hard Call, have announced that "John McCain's family is of Scottish-Irish descent and related to the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, on his mother's side". One problem: a group of professional genealogists and medieval historians described the link to Robert the Bruce as "wonderful fiction" and "baloney".
You can read more in the (U.K. Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/20/johnmccain.uselections2008
