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White House Wild Child : how Alice Roosevelt broke all the rules and won the heart of America  Cover Image E-book E-book

White House Wild Child : how Alice Roosevelt broke all the rules and won the heart of America / by Shelley Fraser Mickle.

Summary:

"A biography of American socialite and writer Alice Roosevelt Longworth"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781632899903
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource
  • Publisher: Watertown : Charlesbridge Publishing, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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Subject: 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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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Orford Libraries.

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Orford Social Library 973.9 B 34190000125830 New items Available -


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