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October 26, 2012 06:50 AM
When McGovern met Mailer
Revisiting an unjustly forgotten account of the 1972 political conventions
When former U.S. Senator George McGovern died in late October, he was valorized as the rare decent man working in a business of crooks, liars, and frauds. But this wasn’t just the usual whitewashing process that accompanies eulogies of a once-hated figure. Even while he was alive, indeed at the height of his prominence in American politics as Democratic presidential...
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