Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power BrokerPenguin, 30. sep. 2008 - 640 sider An entertaining and eye-opening biography of America's most memorable first daughter From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole of the twentieth-century political scene. Her barbed tongue was as infamous as her scandalous personal life, but whenever she talked, powerful people listened, and she reigned for eight decades as the social doyenne in a town where socializing was state business. Historian Stacy Cordery's unprecedented access to personal papers and family archives enlivens and informs this richly entertaining portrait of America?s most memorable first daughter and one of the most influential women in twentieth-century American society and politics. |
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Something More Than a Plain American Girl | 43 |
I Tried to Be Conspicuous | 62 |
Frightfully Difficult Trying to Keep Up Appearances | 83 |
He Never Grew Serious About Anything | 99 |
When Alice Came to Plunderland | 115 |
To Bask in the Rays of Your Reflected Glory | 139 |
Hello Hello Hello | 287 |
The Political Leader of the Family | 328 |
An Irresistible Magnet | 349 |
The Washington Dictatorship | 370 |
I Believe in the Preservation of This Republic | 398 |
Full Sixty Years the World Has Been Her Trade | 418 |
The Most Fascinating Conversationalist of Our Time | 450 |
Epilogue | 476 |
Alice Is Married at Last | 162 |
Mighty Pleased with My Daughter and Her Husband | 179 |
Expelled from the Garden of Eden | 199 |
Quite Marked Schizophrenia | 219 |
Beating Against Bars | 238 |
To Hate the Democrats So Wholeheartedly | 256 |
Acknowledgments | 485 |
Notes | 491 |
Selected Bibliography | 555 |
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