The life and times of George McGovern
By: Thomas J. Knock
Series: Politics and society in twentieth-century America; Politics and society in twentieth-century America
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691142999
Subjects: Politics and government; Legislators; United States. Congress. Senate; United States; Presidential candidates; Biography
Description: The 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v.1.; title: The rise of a prairie statesman