The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson was one of the last century's remarkable political alliances. Both shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise whose 'mission' was the betterment of the human condition. Employing letters and diaries as well as contemporary media accounts, this book examines the perspectives, the convictions, the style, and the spirit that both principals brought to the calling of public service.