The Stevensons

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).