"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.

Few nominees have risen to the task. The shining exception remains Adlai Stevenson’s superb acceptance speech, now universally known for its peroration “Let’s Talk Sense to the American ...

McCarthy's well-publicized "accidental" slip of phrase—"Alger—I mean Adlai"—exemplified the associations Republicans used to berate Stevenson. The great paradox faced by the Democratic party ...