The life and times of George McGovern

By Thomas J. Knock

Subjects: United States, Mcgovern, george s. (george stanley), 1922-2012, United states, congress, senate, biography, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, Politics and government, Biography, Legislators, united states, United states, politics and government, 1989-, Presidential candidates, Legislators, United States. Congress. Senate

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.