Episode Bibliography

Books:

• The Quiet Revolution, by Byron Shafer, 1983

• Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, 2008

• The Liberals’ Moment, by Bruce Miroff, 2007

• McGovern: a biography, by Robert Sam Anson, 1972

• Right from the Start, by Gary Hart, 1973

• The Long Shot, by Gordon Weil, 1973

• Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, by Boston Globe staff, 2009

Articles:

• New York Times, “Floor Fight Due on Delegate Rule,” August 1968

• New York Times “Poll Finds Muskie Leads Democrats, May 1970

• Nevada Daily Mail, “Jimmy the Greek Picks Muskie,” August 1971

• New York Times, “Senate Defeats ‘End War’ Move by Vote of 55-39,” September 1970

• New York Times, “Is He Really Serious About Becoming President? Yes.,” May 1971

• New York Times, “Senate, 55 to 42, Defeats McGovern-Hatfield Plan,” June 1971

• New York Times, “Kennedy, in Gallup Poll, Widens Lead Over Muskie to 5 Points,” December 1971

• Christian Science Monitor, “Nixon's 'Secret Plan' That Never Was,” December 1997

• Washington Post, “Barry Goldwater, GOP Hero, Dies,” May 1998

• The Atlantic, “The Democrats’ Dilemma,” January 2010

• Mitchell Republican, “At Birthday Celebration, McGovern Recalls Events Around Democratic Nomination,” July 2007

• POLITICO, “Why They Mattered: Frank Mankiewicz,” December 2014

• The New Republican, “What Democrats Still Don’t Get About George McGovern,” February 2016

• BBC News, “Moratorium Day: The Day that Millions of Americans Marched,” October 2019

Studies:

• Patrick Hagopian, European Journal of American Studies, The ‘Frustrated Hawks,’ Tet 1968, and the Transformation of American Politics, December 2008

• American War Library, Vietnam War Allied Troop Levels 1960-73

• National Archives, Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty

• Shanto Iyengar and Masha Krupenkin, The Forum, Partisanship as Social Identity; Implications for the Study of Party Polarization, 2018

• Brookings, Reforming the Presidential Nomination Process, 2009

• Sam Rosenfeld, Harvard University dissertation, A Choice, Not an Echo: Polarization and the Transformation of the American Party System, 2014

• Thomas Holbrook and Scott McClurg, American Journal of Political Science, The Mobilization of Core Supporters: Campaigns, Turnout, and Electoral Composition in United States Presidential Elections, October 2005

• Corwin Smidt, American Journal of Political Science, Polarization and the Decline of the American Floating Voter, October 2015

Oral Histories:

• Miller Center, George McGovern Oral History

• Nixon Library, George McGovern Oral History

Historical speeches, news footage, and other archival tape excerpted in the episode were gathered from:

• Archive of American Television

• CSPAN

• Dakota Wesleyan University

• G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, Southern Methodist University

• Internet Archive

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive