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

Thomas J. Knock

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.

BiographyBiography · medium confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismVietnam WarCrime, Policing & ViolenceDemocracy & ElectionsHousing, Cities & Urban Life

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Biography and Autobiography2017WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • George McGovern90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • South Dakota60%
    • Chicago55%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 78%.