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Mickle, Shelley Fraser, author.
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Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Family.
Roosevelt family.
Children of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
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White House wild child : how Alice Roosevelt broke all the rules and won the heart of America / Shelley Fraser Mickle.
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Mickle, Shelley Fraser, author.
Watertown : Imagine, [2023]
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Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Family.
Roosevelt family.
Children of presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Politicians' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
Washington (D.C.) -- Biography.
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9781623545499 (hardcover) :
1623545498 (hardcover)
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xii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents:
PART I T.R. and Bamie -- Still the one. -- "The Aim of My Whole Life Shall Be to Make Her Happy" -- "I Have Been Pretty Nearly Crazy" -- "Too Sacred To Be Written About" -- "There Is A Curse on this House" -- "The World on Her Shoulders" -- Her Great Transformation -- "She Would Be Just as Well Off Without Me" -- His Grief Observed -- "Slow Burning Fuse" -- He Was Not a Man To Live Alone -- Orange Gloves -- PART II ALICE -- "The Child of Another Marriage" -- She Watched Him Shave -- Where No Did Not Exist -- "I Tried To Be Conspicuous" -- "It Could Scorch the Paper It Was Written On" -- In Love with the Rogue's Gallery -- In the Hormone Jungle -- The Blow-Up -- The Script Is Set -- "Bored, Shy and a Little Resentful" -- Clearly Her Father's Daughter -- All-Out War -- Tough Enough to Be Cherished? -- A Husband to Tame Her -- Her Father's Gift -- PART III PAULINA AND JOANNA -- Nick -- The Most Valuable Present -- "Don't Hurt Him; I want to Look at Him" -- "I Simply Crumpled" -- "I Should Have Been a Grandmother, Not a Mother."
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"I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both."--Theodore Roosevelt. During Theodore Roosevelt's presidency--from 1901 to 1909, when Mark Twain called him the most popular man in America--his daughter Alice Roosevelt mesmerized the world with her antics and beauty. Alice was known for carrying a gun, a copy of the Constitution, and a green snake in her purse. When her father told her she couldn't smoke under his roof, she climbed to the top of the White House and smoked on the roof. She became the most famous woman in America--and even the world--predating Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy as an object of public obsession. As her celebrity grew, she continued to buck tradition, push against social norms, and pull political sway behind the curtain of privilege and access. She was known for her acerbic wit and outspoken tendencies which hypnotized both the social and political world. Brilliantly researched and powerfully told, Shelley Fraser Mickle places the reader in the time and place of Alice and asks what would it have been like to be a strong-willed powerful woman of that day. Drawn from primary and secondary sources, Alice's life comes into focus in this historical celebration of an extraordinary woman ahead of her time" --
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973.91092 Longworth Mi
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