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Hissing Cousins: The Lifelong Rivalry of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Hissing Cousins: The Lifelong Rivalry of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

A Richmond Times-Dispatch Best Book of the Year

When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter was transformed into â€œPrincess Alice,â€ arguably the centuryâ€™s first global celebrity. Thirty-two years later, Aliceâ€™s first cousin Eleanor moved into the White House as First Lady. The two women had been born eight months and twenty blocks apart in New York City, spent much of their childhoods together, and were far more alike than most historians acknowledge.Â But their politics and personalities couldnâ€™t have been more distinct.
Â Â Â Â Democratic icon Eleanor was committed to social justice and hated the limelight; Republican Alice was an opponent of big government who gained notoriety for her cutting remarks. The cousins liked to play up their rivalryâ€”in the 1930s they even wrote opposing syndicated newspaper columns and embarked on competing nationwide speaking tours. When the family business is politics, winning trumps everything. Lively, intimate, and stylishly written,Â Hissing CousinsÂ is a double biography of two extraordinary women whose entwined lives give us a sweeping look at the twentieth century in America.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Paperback
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2016-03-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101971628

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