Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Stacy A. Cordery (Author), Alex Picard (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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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.

* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains the Roosevelt family tree from the book. Please feel free to refer to it as you listen along. The names in boldface are mentioned in Alice.

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20 hours and 58 minutes
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Stacy A. Cordery
Narrator

Alex Picard
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April 4 2023
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English
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B0BDH8MTJB
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	19 hours and 58 minutes
Author	Stacy A. Cordery
Narrator	Alex Picard
Audible.ca Release Date	April 04 2023
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B0BDH8MTJB

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Helen

If you don't have anything good to say about anyone, come sit by me....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 28, 2015

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Really enjoyed this biography. It was very well written and held my attention all the way through.

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john m francis

One of a kind

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 7, 2022

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Stacy Cordery shows us the complete and unvarnished Alice Roosevelt Longworth -- warts and all. Far more than the first daughter of President TR and glamorous DC socialite hostess, Alice was an autodidact savant with an in-depth knowledge of boundless topics. She could discuss politics with the King of Spain, astronomy with astro-physicists, or cuts of meat with the local butcher and never be found wanting. Irreverent, iconoclastic, ascerbically witty with incredible insights into politics and everything else imaginable, she awed and entertained admirers and detractors alike. Ms Cordery portrays Alice as a practical intellectual, not an academic dilettante. Thanks to Cordery's fascinating portrait, I feel that I am now a new friend and admirer of one of the truly great personalities of the 20th century.
"Princess Alice" was one of a kind.

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Carol G. Mamantov

Powerful book about a powerful lady

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 20, 2017

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Next to Ron Chernow's "Hamilton", this is one of the best politically related books I have read. Alice's whole life was about the world of politics although she never held an office. Being the daughter of Teddy Roosevelt, this is not surprising.The fact that she could publicly criticize her relatives, FDR and Eleanor, and still remain one of the most influential people in Washington speaks to her charm and independence. She obviously had a very brilliant mind and enhanced it by reading extensively about science, philosophy etc. She could discuss various subjects in depth with experts in their field. Her love life was not what should have been acceptable but it never lessened her power or influence with the famous and powerful. I knew that Alice was a handful when she was young but I didn't realize how independent in thought and action she was until the end of her long life. I found the book to draw a very in depth portrait of a most unusual, intelligent and witty woman. The author did a thorough job of researching the life of Alice Roosevelt Longsworth.

16 people found this helpful

ilprofessore

AMERICAN ROYALTY

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2014

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Alice Longworth was one of those rare creatures--a true American eccentric. As the privileged eldest daughter of a president of the United States, one growing up in the White House at the beginning of the last century, she quickly learned that as "Princess Alice," everyone's darling, she could get away with anything and did. Long before the Roaring Twenties, Alice was breaking all the lady-like rules: smoking, playing poker, not paying calls. In that same spirit of insouciance, she continued doing what she wanted to do and say, even into her nineties--doyen of Washington--famed for her dinners and her wicked wit, much quoted here.

What is perhaps most fascinating about this well-told tale is the undying animosity [jealousy?] between the two great Roosevelt houses--hers, the Republican Oyster Bay R's [her father Teddy's side of the family] and theirs, the Democratic Hyde Park R's (FDR's branch.] Franklin, whom she had dismissed early on as a light-weight charmer, hitched his wagon to the minority party and, to Alice's ceaseless displeasure, watched him and it become the majority during the Depression. For that, she never forgave the man she once labeled "the feather duster." As she had once opposed another Democrat, Wilson, and his plans for the League of Nation, so, too, did she object to almost everything Franklin and his wife did in his four terms. A non-interventionist if not a genuine isolationist before the Second World War, Alice resisted American's involvement with England. After the war, she opposed the United Nations, and countless social programs whose time had come. For a woman famous for her intelligence and her ability to size up people, a very grande dame if ever there was one, it seems odd indeed that in so a long life she was blind about so many people and things-- in the end, none so glaring as her affection for Richard Nixon.

13 people found this helpful

TexasRose

Dry as Dust

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 16, 2019

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I assumed that reading about a woman who was so influential and intelligent that she was courted by politicians domestic and foreign, celebrities, and journalists, would be a fascinating read. I was wrong. Half way through this book, I gave up. If you're looking for hundreds of pages of dull dry facts, rarely made interesting by personal passages and letters, then go for this report on Alice Longworth.

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