Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker 9780143114277, 0143114271

"It was awfully bad psychologically" -- "Sissy had a sweat nurse!" -- "Something more than a pl

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English Pages xiv, 590 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Year 2008;2010

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Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House princess to Washington power broker
 9780143114277, 0143114271

Table of contents :
"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."

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