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Cordery, Stacy A.
Alice :
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker /
Stacy A. Cordery.
New York, N.Y. :
Viking,
2007.
xiv, 590 p., [32] p. of plates :
ill ;
25 cm.
"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".
Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-572) and index.
20120604.
Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919
Family.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
1884-1980.
Children of presidents
United States
Biography.
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