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Piecing together the Stevenson family portrait
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THE STEVENSONS
A Biography of an American Family
By Jean H. Baker
Norton, 577 pp., illustrated, $30
There have been 10 presidential campaigns -- with an 11th under
way -- since Adlai E. Stevenson II set out on what he saw as a moral
test to talk sense to American voters, even "if telling you the truth
about the world as I see it should cause you to cast me down, and
revile me, and with me the Democratic Party."
But while Stevenson was "cast down...
