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

----- 草原政治家的崛起：麦戈文的生活和时代

ISBN: 9780691142999 出版年：2016 页码：602 Knock, Thomas Princeton University Press

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 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. Drawing extensively on mcgovern's private papers and scores of in-depth interviews, knock shows how mcgovern's importance to the democratic party and american liberalism extended far beyond his 1972 presidential campaign, and how the story of postwar american politics is about more than just the rise of the new right. He vividly describes mcgovern's harrowing missions over nazi germany as a B-24 bomber pilot, and reveals how mcgovern's combat experiences motivated him to earn a phd in history and stoked his ambition to run for congress.