Adlai Stevenson: The Last, Sad Years

Adlai Stevenson: The Last, Sad Years

Adlai Stevenson was surely the most attractive human being to figure prominently in American politics since the second world war. He was a cultivated man in the tradition of an older America that seems almost to have disappeared. His wit was real, and it was his own. He was happily free of those delusional claims to omnipotence and omniscience which seem to overcome men of power, even in democratic republics. And for thoughtful people there was something intensely affecting in his readiness t...