"He's too young and he's traveling on the reputation of his father," a hostile Winnetka Republican said recently of Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, the Democratic candidate for Treasurer of Illinois.
Again, the lessons of the Stevenson election contain great relevance to present day. Joe McCarthy's witch ... slip of phrase—"Alger—I mean Adlai"—exemplified the associations Republicans ...
Dr. Wittner is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany. His latest book is Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the ...
In 1952 Adlai Stevenson spoke on racial discrimination to a segregated audience in Richmond, Virginia. The speech was moderate, but left no doubt that Stevenson was determined to campaign for ...