Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2005
Abstract
George McGovern, the three-term South Dakota senator, transcends the two great political eras of the last half of the American century. He first succeeded in politics as an advocate of the New Deal order and Great Society liberalism. He was defeated in his 1980 reelection bid as the Reagan revolution undermined the era of Democratic dominance that began with FDR's New Deal.
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 25:4 (Fall 2005). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.