The Stevensons: A Biography of an American Family

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). The Stevensons is also a book about the relationship of a family to its times: With Baker's characteristically deft blend of the public and private, set on a broad canvas, the Stevenson story becomes an American saga. Baker's biography "affords [Stevenson's] life a depth, historical and personal, that few other writers have acknowledged" (Kirkus Reviews).

• | Author: Jean H. Baker
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 1997
• | Number of Pages: 592 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0393315983
• | ISBN-13: 9780393315981