Author: Porter McKeever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
With complete access to private and official papers, Stevenson confidant Porter McKeever has written a masterful biography 25 years after the legendary statesman's death. Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal have few equals, and he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time. Photos.
Adlai Stevenson
Author: Porter McKeever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
With complete access to private and official papers, Stevenson confidant Porter McKeever has written a masterful biography 25 years after the legendary statesman's death. Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal have few equals, and he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time. Photos.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
With complete access to private and official papers, Stevenson confidant Porter McKeever has written a masterful biography 25 years after the legendary statesman's death. Stevenson's combination of eloquence, vision, sophistication, and popular appeal have few equals, and he has remained one of the last great political heroes of our time. Photos.
Adlai Stevenson's Lasting Legacy
Author: A. Liebling
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137076062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Twice unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Adlai Stevenson played a key role in American politics throughout much of the middle of the Twentieth Century. This collection of essays from Senator Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Schlesinger, and others, looks at Stevenson's past and current societal significance.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137076062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Twice unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Adlai Stevenson played a key role in American politics throughout much of the middle of the Twentieth Century. This collection of essays from Senator Eugene McCarthy, Arthur Schlesinger, and others, looks at Stevenson's past and current societal significance.
Adlai Stevenson and the World
Author: John Bartlow Martin
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
Author: John Bartlow Martin
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385070102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385070102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois
Author: John Bartlow Martin
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The Black Book of Vice President Adlai E. Sevenson, 1836-1914, Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, Senator Adlai E. Stevenson, 1930-
Author: Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Publisher: Adlai E Stevenson III
ISBN: 9780982371008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Based on a political archive that spans five generations and more than 150 years, this collection of narratives, observations, wit, and wisdom, enlivens and informs on the family of former senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. This volume covers Adlai I, who served as vice president for Grover Cleveland; Adlai II, who served in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and as governor of Illinois; Adlai III, who was an Illinois State Representative, state treasurer, senator, and two-time candidate for Illinois governor, and other family members in between. Whether it is Abraham Lincoln’s presidential campaign material—a Stevenson family member was a friend, contemporary, and promoter—after the famous seven debates or the forewarnings of the Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1979, much of the history of the United States is presented here from personalized views of those who experienced and influenced it.
Publisher: Adlai E Stevenson III
ISBN: 9780982371008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Based on a political archive that spans five generations and more than 150 years, this collection of narratives, observations, wit, and wisdom, enlivens and informs on the family of former senator Adlai E. Stevenson III. This volume covers Adlai I, who served as vice president for Grover Cleveland; Adlai II, who served in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations and as governor of Illinois; Adlai III, who was an Illinois State Representative, state treasurer, senator, and two-time candidate for Illinois governor, and other family members in between. Whether it is Abraham Lincoln’s presidential campaign material—a Stevenson family member was a friend, contemporary, and promoter—after the famous seven debates or the forewarnings of the Comprehensive Anti-Terrorism Act of 1979, much of the history of the United States is presented here from personalized views of those who experienced and influenced it.
The Stevensons
Author: Jean H. Baker
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315981
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Presents a portrait of four generations of the Stevenson family in America, from the first Scotch-Irish immigrants to the life and career of the noted liberal politician Adlai Stevenson.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393315981
Category : Governors
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Presents a portrait of four generations of the Stevenson family in America, from the first Scotch-Irish immigrants to the life and career of the noted liberal politician Adlai Stevenson.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson
Author: Richard Henry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137270320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson - unexplored in depth by scholars until this study - was one of the last century s remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise, one in which the fulfillment of its "mission" was the betterment of the human condition. This belief was the foundation upon which their legislative initiatives were constructed. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137270320
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson - unexplored in depth by scholars until this study - was one of the last century s remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise, one in which the fulfillment of its "mission" was the betterment of the human condition. This belief was the foundation upon which their legislative initiatives were constructed. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service.
Adlai E. Stevenson Letter
Author: Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This collection consists of a letter (September 1908) of recommendation from Adlai Stevenson for Lee Duncan, a Bloomington, Illinois, newspaperman, and later resident of Anaconda, Montana.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This collection consists of a letter (September 1908) of recommendation from Adlai Stevenson for Lee Duncan, a Bloomington, Illinois, newspaperman, and later resident of Anaconda, Montana.
Man of Honor, Man of Peace
Author: Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Publisher: New York : Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Politicians
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description