Porter McKeever
Auteur de Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Porter McKeever
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 83
- Popularité
- #218,811
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Stevenson had no shortage of admirers during his lifetime, and many of them wrote biographies about him after his death. Porter McKeever was among their number; as a longtime friend of Stevenson's his book is informed by his own personal insights on his subject. This is both the book's strength and its weakness, being less of a scholarly study and more of a glowing -- if not entirely uncritical -- tribute his subject. With it readers can understand how Stevenson was able to command such devotion from so many people, even though the justification for it is largely absent from Stevenson's career. Though a more dispassionate analysis of Stevenson's career remains to be written, until it is readers should turn to this partisan study to learn about his life and achievements.… (plus d'informations)