A family spokesman says former U.S. Sen. George McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. The spokesman, Steve Hildebrand, ...

Let's talk more now about the life of Senator George McGovern, who died over the weekend in South Dakota at age 90. Many people will recall one thing about McGovern: his 1972 presidential campaign.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – George McGovern was an unwavering, often unrequited advocate for liberal Democratic causes. He pursued those goals in plainspoken, usually understated, Midwestern style. He ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Abbie Hoffman sobbed that fateful night at the downtown Manhattan apartment of fellow activist Jerry Rubin. So did Rubin and Allen Ginsberg. John Lennon was drunk, and out of control, ...

In the history of lost causes, the figure of George McGovern casts a poignant shadow. His run for the White House in 1972 ended in one of the biggest electoral defeats in American presidential history ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle The death of George ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. When former U.S. Senator George McGovern died in late October, he was valorized as the rare decent man working ...

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