Robert
Hartley
Author and Editor
Obsessed: The Presidency and Illinois Senators Percy, Stevenson III and Simon
Xlibris/Sniktau, $47.99/24.99
Untold numbers United States senators have dreamed of residing in the Oval Office. Many fewer committed to open pursuit of the office, and even fewer made it. Three Illinois senators from the 1950s to the 1990s—Republican Charles H. Percy, Democrats Adlai E. Stevenson III and Paul Simon—can be counted as actively engaged in the hunt, with widely differing outcomes. Each had internal and external pressures.
- Percy: Encouraged by Dwight Eisenhower and his brother Milton and dogged by media speculation.
- Stevenson III: Expected to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, and his father, Stevenson II.
- Simon: Ambitious to find ever-higher elective outlets for his policy ideas, and willing to take the risk.
Circumstances aside, their common goal was to be president.
Read the review in The Illinois Times.
Product Detail:
Cloth/Paper/eBook
979-8-3694-0034-0
320 pages, 6 x 9, 15 Illus.
Publisher: Xlibris/Sniktau
7/16/2023
…no one does 20th century Illinois political histories better than Hartley, who writes like the journalist he was and the careful and perceptive historian he is.