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The rise of a prairie statesman : the life and times of George McGovern / Thomas J. Knock.
LIBRA E840.8.M34 K58 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knock, Thomas J., author.
- Series:
- Politics and society in twentieth-century America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012.
- McGovern, George S.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- United States.
- Presidential candidates--United States--Biography.
- Presidential candidates.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1989-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]-
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Volume 1. 1922-1968.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691142999
- 0691142998
- OCLC:
- 911518165
- Publisher Number:
- 40025793086
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