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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman - The Life and Times of George McGovern (Hardcover)
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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman - The Life and Times of George McGovern (Hardcover)
Series: Politics and Society in Modern America
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The Rise of a Prairie Statesman is the first volume of a major
biography of the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate who became
America's most eloquent and prescient critic of the Vietnam War. In
this masterful book, Thomas Knock traces George McGovern's life
from his rustic boyhood in a South Dakota prairie town during the
Depression to his rise to the pinnacle of politics at the 1968
Democratic National Convention in Chicago where police and antiwar
demonstrators clashed in the city's streets. Drawing extensively on
McGovern's private papers and scores of in-depth interviews, Knock
shows how McGovern's importance to the Democratic Party and
American liberalism extended far beyond his 1972 presidential
campaign, and how the story of postwar American politics is about
more than just the rise of the New Right. He vividly describes
McGovern's harrowing missions over Nazi Germany as a B-24 bomber
pilot, and reveals how McGovern's combat experiences motivated him
to earn a PhD in history and stoked his ambition to run for
Congress. When President Kennedy appointed him director of Food for
Peace in 1961, McGovern engineered a vast expansion of the
program's school lunch initiative that soon was feeding tens of
millions of hungry children around the world. As a senator, he
delivered his courageous and unrelenting critique of Lyndon
Johnson's escalation in Vietnam--a conflict that brought their
party to disaster and caused a new generation of Democrats to turn
to McGovern for leadership. A stunning achievement, The Rise of a
Prairie Statesman ends in 1968, in the wake of the assassinations
of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, when the "Draft McGovern"
movement thrust him into the national spotlight and the contest for
the presidential nomination, culminating in his triumphal
reelection to the Senate and his emergence as one of the most
likely prospects for the Democratic nomination in 1972..
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