| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern. Dir. Stephen Vittoria. 2004. 125 mins. (First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201-4404; 718-488-8900; mailroom@frif.com; http://www.frif.com/)
One Bright Shining Moment aims to restore the historical record of the man whose historic defeat in the 1972 presidential election has obscured much of his contribution to American political life. As Gloria Steinem observes, Sen. George McGovern's name has been "invoked as a symbol of failure more than as a symbol of prescience and principle." The film goes a long way to reestablish McGovern's authenticity as a prairie populist who stood on principle against one of America's most horrific wars and one of its most unscrupulous politicians.	1
One Bright Shining Moment opens with the faces of U.S. policy makers accompanied by a performance of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" set to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner" and footage of the savagery of the war in Vietnam accompanied by Senator McGovern's ringing words from the 1972 Democratic presidential convention: "I will halt the senseless bombing of Indochina on Inaugural Day."	. . .

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