The lives and careers of several family members including Grover Cleveland Vice President Adlai Stevenson and twotime democratic democratic illinois governor Adlai Stevenson second. This originally aired in 1996 and its about an hour. Cspan jean h. Baker, author of the stevensons a biography of an american family, whats the scope of this book . Guest well, its pretty broad and its a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. And it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. And thats Adlai Ewing Stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic president ial candidate in 1952 and 1956. It took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc. , and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. Cspan did you ever meet any of them . Guest yes, i did. The most prominent stevensons that i met were Adlai Stevenso
Coming up ne3 coming up next, the guggenheimlehrman military history awards. You can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is joe seiyu bunting. I am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. Stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. He made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. If you were a 20yearold rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. A successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service
History awards. You can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is joe seiyu bunting. I am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. Stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. He made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. If you were a 20yearold rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. A successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people in their 60s and 70s have earnest a large
Patrick Stuart, the 8th Earl Castle Stewart, who has died aged 95, was among the last living peers to have inherited their titles as a result of older brothers being killed in action in the Second World War. In Patrick’s case, two of his older brothers were killed – David in 1942 in the second battle at Al Alamein and Robert in 1944 at Anzio, making him Viscount Stuart and his father’s heir. In fact, a generation earlier, his father, the 7th Earl, also a third son, had succeeded his father after