9780393315981
The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family
Jean H. Baker
ISBN 13: 9780393315981
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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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.
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"Jean H. Baker's sympathetic but balanced chronicle, sweeping across two centuries, traces the story of Illinois's most prominent political dynasty....[She] has a sharp eye for theme and irony."
Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review, 04/14/1996
Review:"[A] valuable study of one of the most frustratingly elusive figures of mid-century American politics, rich in political anecdote, but rigorously analytical."
Michael Kenney, Boston Globe
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