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  1. Jun 17, 1997 · "The Stevensons" is a sweeping story of the American experience, a story of a great American family. Jean Baker begins the story of the Stevenson saga with Adlai Stevenson II's 1948 campaign for governor in Illinois.

  2. Jun 17, 1997 · Meanwhile Stevensons's opponent looked like the professional politician he was. With the abundant, well-groomed silver hair that Americans craved in their officials and a round handsome face unfurrowed by any state problems even after seven years as governor, Green reminded audiences of his crusading past as a U.S. attorney responsible for the ...

    • $32
    • 9780.4B
    • Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
    • 592
  3. Jan 1, 1996 · 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 ...

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  5. The Stevensons. : Jean H. Baker. W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 592 pages. 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).

  6. She was an energetic, intelligent woman who then, having been bitten by the Stevenson bug, as, by the way, lots of men and women were during the '50s. They never forgot Adlai Stevenson. She then ...

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  7. Adlai Stevenson I served the public for over 40 years. Lewis Stevenson (1868-1929) Lewis Stevenson, Adlai I’s son and vice-presidential secretary, is the least well-known of the Stevensons who held office. In 1914, Illinois Governor Edward Dunne appointed Lewis Illinois secretary of state. Lewis had hoped to follow in Adlai I’s footsteps ...

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