Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker - Hardcover

Stacy A. Cordery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670018333 ISBN 13: 9780670018338

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2007

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Stacy A. Cordery is a professor of history at Monmouth College. She is the author of Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern and the official bibliographer for the National First LadiesĀ’ Library.

Stacy A. Cordery is a professor of history at Monmouth College.

From Publishers Weekly:

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670018333
• ISBN 13: 9780670018338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608