Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker by Stacy A. Cordery is a 590-page hardcover from Viking, published by The Penguin Group, 2007. The dust jacket has some minor rubbing and shelf wear. Inside, The spine has some bumping to the top and bottom. There is a black remainder mark across the bottom page edges. The pages are crisp, clean and unmarked and the binding is straight. Book Summary At the dawn of the twentieth century and the age of media celebrity, a new figure in the White House gave Americans a larger-than-life idol to root for, full of color and character. It wasn't the rough-riding new president, Teddy Roosevelt, but his outrageous and outrageously charming teenage daughter, Alice. From the moment she strode into town--carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette--to the image of her seven decades later, entertaining Republican and Democratic presidents in Washington's most celebrated salon, Alice Roosevelt Longworth was li