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Alice : Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker / Stacy A. Cordery.

by Cordery, Stacy A.

New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2007.

"It was awfully bad psychologically" -- "Sissy had a sweat nurse!" -- "Something more than a plain American girl" -- "I tried to be conspicuous" -- "Frightfully difficult trying to keep up appearances" -- "He never grew serious about anything" -- "When Alice came to Plunderland" -- "To bask in the rays of your reflected glory" -- "Alice is married at last" -- "Mighty pleased with my daughter and her husband" -- "Expelled from the Garden of Eden" -- "Quite marked schizophrenia" -- "Beating against bars" -- "To hate the Democrats so wholeheartedly" -- "Hello, hello, hello" -- "The political leader of the family" -- "An irresistible magnet" -- "The Washington dictatorship" -- "I believe in the preservation of this republic" -- "Full sixty years the world has been her trade" -- "The most fascinating conversationalist of our time".

Detailed and entertaining portrait of the witty and whip-smart daughter of Teddy Roosevelt., who flouted social conventions and opened the door for other women to do the same.

Staff recommended

9780670018338 :

Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-572) and index.

xiv, 590 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

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