One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer Of George Mcgovern

Bad news, Democrats: That bright, shining moment shone over 30 years ago, and was extinguished by one of the worst political defeats in U.S. history. According to this curiously lopsided documentary — which is nonpartisan only in the sense that that it holds no brief for either the Clinton White House or the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush pere et fils — the last beacon of hope and decency to rise above the murk and mire of American politics was Sen. George McGovern. McGovern, the unassuming "Prairie Statesman" from North Dakota, offered a voice of compassion and the promise of change to a country ripped apart by poverty, the civil-r...