![]() Knock’s rendition of McGovern’s formative years in Mitchell, while sometimes exaggerating the effect of the Depression on the McGovern family, is engaging. ![]() Knock does a wonderful job addressing McGovern’s formative years, reaching back to the experiences of McGovern’s great-grandfather and his grandfather to establish the working-class heritage of the family and to his father’s conversion from a promising baseball player to a Methodist minister. ![]() Although I was only seventeen on election night in 1972, I had an interest in the outcome because the war in Vietnam was still being waged, and I would get a lottery number soon. ![]() The Rise of a Prairie Statesman has already generated significant commentary, including reviews in the American Historical Review and the Journal of American History, as well as a recent review in South Dakota History.īecause much has already been written, it may seem a furtive effort to add to the body of reviews, but I grew up in South Dakota when McGovern inspired many discussions between members of several generations and of different parties. His background in those areas of research shines through in this, his most recent book, which is the first of two volumes focused on the life of George McGovern up to his reelection to the US Senate in 1968. Knock’s reputation as a historian of US foreign relations and of the impact of Woodrow Wilson on that policy is well established. ![]()
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