The campaign poster is typically more science than ... Joe McCarthy) and 1972 candidate George McGovern inspired countless famous and not-so-famous artists to churn out a visual feast of bold ...

Former U.S. Senator and 1972 ... The campaign had energy, of course, but it never felt frantic . . . or mean.” Below is an admittedly incomplete, at-a-glance biography of George McGovern ...

George S. McGovern, the three-term US senator from South Dakota who defied the odds to win the Democratic nomination for president in 1972 only to suffer at the hands of Richard Nixon one of the ...

A phone call from George ... of 1972 in Sioux Falls, S.D. I was covering the presidential campaign for the Village Voice, the first presidential race I covered, and I’d come to admire McGovern ...

His focus is the 1972 campaign of the late South Dakota Sen. George McGovern. The story, told in seven episodes, begins in 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in modern American history ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. George McGovern’s 1972 campaign against Nixon changed many lives, including John Lennons’s. Lennon had moved to ...

And inevitably, comparisons will be drawn between Bernie and the last left-bent Democratic insurgent to win a presidential nomination, George McGovern in 1972 ... than of inept campaign mechanics ...

If anyone was entitled to regrets, it was George McGovern, who died at 90 over the weekend. His 1972 campaign was such a disaster that he once joked that he "wanted to run for the presidency in ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonoured by Watergate, a scandal ...

For many Republicans and more than a few centrist Democrats, the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern stands as a monument to left wing radicalism. Newt Gingrich accused his supporters of ...

Robert Dole in an international anti-hunger campaign. Many liberals who remember George McGovern's 1972 campaign will always think of him as “the best President we never had.” But for his ill ...

A phone call from George ... of 1972 in Sioux Falls, S.D. I was covering the presidential campaign for the Village Voice, the first presidential race I covered, and I’d come to admire McGovern ...