The Rise of a Prairie Statesman by Thomas J. Knock

When President Kennedy appointed him director of Food for Peace in 1961, McGovern engineered a vast expansion of the program's school lunch initiative that soon was feeding tens of millions of hungry children around the world. 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.

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.ĭrawing 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. 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. presidential candidate and unsung champion of American liberalism OL20023338W Page_number_confidence 94.45 Pages 618 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220219111401 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 773 Scandate 20220208162631 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780691142999 Tts_version 4.The first major biography of the 1972 U.S. Urn:lcp:riseofprairiesta0000knoc:epub:b95293f2-618b-4f5b-aca5-ec937cec3dbd Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4081 Identifier riseofprairiesta0000knoc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s285vc3vd22 Invoice 1605 Isbn 9780691142999 Lccn 2015019637 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300244 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:07:43 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA40833417 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Rise of a Prairie Statesman by Thomas J. Knock