Rise of a Prairie Statesman - The Life and Times of George Mcgovern

Zusatztext " The Rise of a Prairie Statesman cannot be judged as anything but a critical success." ---Brad Baranowski, History Informationen zum Autor Thomas J. Knock is Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of the prize-winning To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order and the coauthor of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century (both Princeton). He lives in Dallas! Texas. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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

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• Autori: Thomas Knock, Thomas J. Knock
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780691142999
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14299-9
• Pagine: 544
• Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America; Politics and Society in Modern America; Politics and Society in Twenti
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, Central / national / federal government, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Central government