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Alice Hardcover – Oct. 23 2007

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A detailed portrait of Teddy Roosevelt's daughter relates such facts as her tempestuous teen years and flouting of social conventions in order to promote women's rights, her infidelity-tested marriage to Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth, and her sharp criticism of FDR's New Deal programs. 30,000 first printing.

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Oct. 23 2007
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16.21 x 4.6 x 24.28 cm
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0670018333
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The fiercely intelligent eldest daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt (1884–1981) was rebellious and outspoken partly as the result of her desperation to gain the attention of an emotionally distant father, according to historian Cordery. Utilizing Alice's personal papers, Cordery describes how she was more devastated by the political infidelity of her husband, House speaker Nicholas Longworth, during the 1912 presidential election (he sided with Taft over TR) than by his sexual dalliances. Her own affair with powerful Idaho Sen. William Borah resulted in the birth of her only child, Paulina. When her beloved father died in 1919, the stoic Alice simply omitted it completely from her autobiography, and she was a poor mother to Paulina, who died in 1957, at 32, from an overdose of prescription medicines mixed with alcohol. Alice's independence of mind often led her against the grain: she worked to defeat Wilson's League of Nations and was a WWII isolationist and America First activist. Her witty syndicated newspaper columns criticized FDR and the New Deal, and she betrayed her cousin Eleanor by encouraging FDR's liaison with Lucy Mercer Rutherford. Cordery (Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern) pens an authoritative, intriguing portrait of a first daughter who broke the mold. Photos. (Oct. 22)
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*Starred Review* Our royalty is our presidential families, and the eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt was even referred to in the press of the time as Princess Alice. "Larger than life" is a clichéd description, but Alice Roosevelt Longworth was qualified to wear it. This absorbing, magnificently complete biography, the first to be based on Alice's own papers, presents her as the first female celebrity of the twentieth century. What that meant in terms of how she viewed herself and how she was viewed by her famous father and an adoring public is explored in Cordery's impressively astute psychological understanding of this quite complex personality. Alice's mother died giving birth to her, her father was famously distant, and her stepmother, First Lady Edith, hadn't a clue about how to handle an intelligent, willfuland world-famousstepdaughter who seemed bent on acting in the most dramatic fashion. Alice's tumultuous marriage to Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth is sensitively appraised, and the true father of Alice's one child is identified. Always the political animal, Alice remained a force in Washington, D.C., politics as well as society throughout her long life, a life she plotted for herself unbound by tradition. Hooper, Brad"

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Viking USA (Oct. 23 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0670018333
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0670018338
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 kg
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.21 x 4.6 x 24.28 cm

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Stacy Cordery is a biographer and professor of History at Iowa State University. She is currently under contract with Viking/Penguin for a biography of the rags-to-riches, innovative American beauty entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden.

Stacy's most recent book, _Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts_, earned praise from the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Kirkus, and Publisher's Weekly, among others. Her third book, _Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker_, was a New York Times notable non-fiction book and widely extolled for its depth of research and engaging prose. She is a popular speaker and has appeared on venues such as NPR, CNN, C-SPAN, the Diane Rehm Show, and the Smithsonian Channel. For more, please see www.StacyCordery.com or follow her on facebook: Stacy Cordery, Author.

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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.

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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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