The Stevensons
A Biography of an American Family
Will be published approx. on 16. July 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-0-393-31598-1 (ISBN)
Description
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).
Baker's biography "affords [Stevenson's] life a depth, historical and personal, that few other writers have acknowledged" (Kirkus Reviews).
Reviews / Votes
"A vivid portrait. . . . It is a great American story." -- Baltimore Sun "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 "Scrupulous and perceptive." -- Jonathan Yardley - Washington Post Book WorldMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
949 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-31598-1 (9780393315981)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jean Harvey Baker is the author of many books on nineteenth-century American history. She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.