October 2, 1977

TRENTON

ADLAI STEVENSON, John Bartlow Martin tells us in a brief account of his labors on this work, “was a string‐saver; he almost literally never threw anything away.” One wonders about the qualifying “almost.” Stevenson even held on to the stubs of tickets to football games. Martin and his researcher did not catalogue the stubs, but they used 65,000 index cards‐a thousand for each year of his life, almost three a day‐to make a file of the materials they thought might be used, and on the evidence of this enormous work (the first volume, “Adlai Stevenson of Illinois,” was published last year) there was little that was not used wnat we nave, especially in this second and concluding volume, “Adlai Stevenson and the World,” which covers the period between his 1952 defeat by Dwight Eisenhower and his death in 1965. is very nearly a day‐by‐day account of his last 13 years. (Sometimes it seems hour‐by‐hour, even minute‐by‐minute: “On April 14 [1953] Stevenson and his companions left Singapore at 8:15 A.M. aboard a U. S. Air Force DC‐3 for Kuala Lumpur, capital of the federation of Malaya.”) And what is not to be found in Martin's work, as well as much that is, is likely to have a place in “The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson,” of which the seventh and penultimate volume—;edited, as were its predecessors, by Walter Johnson—;covers the 1957‐61 period and includes, along with speeches and diary excerpts, innumerable thank you‐for‐the‐lovely‐weekend notes and, in between expository and explanatory matter by Johnson—;who, like Martin, had earlier written a book about Stevenson. There can be no more than a half‐dozen figures in this country whose lives have been more amply recounted and documented than that of the man who served one term as Governor of Illinois, was overwhelmingly defeated in two Presidential elections and spent four bruising and disillusioning years as our chief delegate to the United Nations.

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