George McGovern has announced his plan to write a biography of Abraham Lincoln:
George McGovern was never elected president, but at least he gets to write a book about one.
Although he's not the first to take on the life of Abraham Lincoln.
"President Kennedy thought that only the president could understand the exact pressures and responsibilities of the job, and I felt that George's defeat in 1972 would give him a sense of the kinds of decisions a president has to make," said former Kennedy aide and Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., general editor of the Times Books presidential series of short biographies.
Schlesinger is a longtime friend of the 84-year-old McGovern, the former senator from South Dakota who lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon in 1972. Schlesinger said Thursday that McGovern not only had a political background but a scholarly one, a doctorate in history and political science from Northwestern University.
McGovern's previous books include "The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition," published in 2004.
I'll look forward to its publication.
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