Stevenson is author of "The Black Book"—which records American history and culture from within its politics as his family knew it over five generations, starting with his great great grandfather, Jesse W. Fell, who was Abraham Lincoln's patron and persuaded him to run for president. Stevenson contrasts what he sees as the values that created America with those that now undermine it. "The Black Book" has been published by the China Academy of Social Studies Press as "American History and the Story of the Black Book".