Alice, Stacy A. Cordery
Alice, Stacy A. Cordery
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Alice
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker

Author: Stacy A. Cordery

Narrator: Alex Picard

Unabridged: 19 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 04/04/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Stacy A. Cordery is chairman of the history department at Monmouth College in Illinois and is the author of Theodore Roosevelt: In the Vanguard of the Modern. She is the bibliographer for the National First Ladies’ Library. This is her third book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alice on April 10, 2012

I am a serious reader of biography, especially of American women. This was the first full-length biography I have read about Alice Longworth, and my appetite for this book was whetted by the many, many anecdotes about her that I have read about in works about her family and other contemporaries. Ali......more

Goodreads review by Marsha on November 17, 2015

I enjoyed this book immensely, but it is one long read, packed with a lot of history. If you want to learn about the life of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, this is a must-read.......more

Goodreads review by Susie on January 10, 2009

Pretty heavy going. . . poor poor Alice. At least she wasn't working at the Triangle Factory. I guess I wasn't too sympathetic. Do they still have salons in DC? Who are the great host/hostesses today?......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on January 23, 2019

In mid-January of last year, I was reading all about the obelisk-like structure that can’t be missed in the heart of DC, Washington’s Monument by John Steele Gordon. At the same time this year, I was reading of “the other Washington Monument,” standing equally erect, at least as hard to miss, and ev......more

Goodreads review by Jean on November 02, 2013

I finally finished the Alice Roosevelt Longworth bio. It took me quite a long time, (500 pgs) but it was very interesting. Two passages i posted in a women's issues discussion on SeniorLearn book discussions and thought i would share here. One is about TR at Harvard. His ungraduate thesis was - are y......more