The Rise of a Prairie Statesman : : The Life and Times of George McGovern / / Thomas Knock.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Society in Modern America ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 32 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. Yours, for Fixing Up This World
- 2. A Boy Never Gets over His Boyhood
- 3. A Clasping of Hands Meant Everything
- 4. The Best B-24 Pilot in the World
- 5. I Would Have to Call Him a Progressive Agrarian
- 6. America Was Born in Revolution against the Established Order
- 7. The Confused and Fear-Ridden Temper of the Times
- 8. What a Loss to History!
- 9. Washington, DC
- 10. The Apostle of Agriculture, Education, and Peace
- 11. The Quest for the Senate
- 12. Food for Peace
- 13. We Are Determining the Priorities of Our National Life
- 14. The Right Song for the Wrong Season
- 15. The Cup of Peril Is Full
- 16. But There Are Still People with Hope
- 17. The Kind of Man the Future Must Have
- Epilogue: Come Home, America
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Sources
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter