The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern

by Thomas J. Knock

Book Overview

The first major biography of the 1972 U.S. presidential candidate and unsung champion of American liberalism

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691142998
• ISBN13: 9780691142999
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"