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Nonfiction Conscience defined by combat THE RISE OF A PRAIRIE STATESMAN:  The Life and Times of George McGovern By Thomas J. Knock 434 pp. Princeton University Press Reviewed by Diane Diekman The Rise Of A Prairie Statesman: The Life And Times Of George McGovern is the first volume of a major two-part biography on the most eloquent critic of the Vietnam War. Thomas J. Knock, a distinguished historian and teaching professor at Southern Methodist University, has written an aptly titled account of the life and times, through the 1968 elections, of this U.S. Senator from South Dakota. George McGovern was elected to a second term in the U.S. Senate in 1968, after losing to Hubert Humphrey for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. The two had been close friends until divided by the war in Vietnam. Early in the Presidential campaign, Humphrey picked up the torch for President Lyndon Johnson’s bombing approach, while McGovern supported Robert Kennedy’s de-escalatio...