"[A] sweeping narrative, beautifully written and scrupulously evenhanded, [that] does full justice to Stevenson and his people... Ambitious, elegiac, and provocative."—Richard Norton Smith, Chicago Tribune, front page review 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 ). Photographs