The Stevensons A Biography of an American Family

Historian and biographer Jean H. Baker tells the compelling story of four generations of an American family and its most celebrated member the...more

Historian and biographer Jean H. Baker tells the compelling story of four generations of an American family and its most celebrated member the high-minded, eloquent, and perennial also-ran icon of liberal politics, Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900-1965). With Baker's characteristically deft blend of the public and the private, set on a broad canvas, the Stevenson story becomes an American saga. Photos.   less