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Grassroots: The autobiography of George McGovern
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Hardcover
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307 pages
Published
January 1st 1977
by Random House
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I had a history teacher back in grade school who once said that voters always choose the right man for president. What an amazing thing to say just a few years after Richard Nixon, one of the sleaziest corrupt presidents defeated George McGovern, one of the most moral, good candidates to run, in one of the biggest landslides in history. Soon after Nixon resigned in shame. How much better a country we would be if Nixon hadn't beaten McGovern or Humphrey or Bush hadn't taken the election from Gore
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Really good read, well written and entertaining.
I love McGovern and this book was very interesting. I would like to read a book about him that was written later in his life. That being said, the only reason I didn't give this book five stars is because the last chapter was about current event, but since it was written in the 70s that section was incredibly dull to me.
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The son of a Methodist minister, George Stanley McGovern grew up in South Dakota. An indifferent student as a youth, McGovern later credited participation in high school debate with giving him confidence and he graduated in the top 10% of his high school class. His college education was interrupted by World War II, as McGovern enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and served as a bomber pilot in Eur
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