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Book

Hissing cousins : the untold story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Call Number

  • 920 P517 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, [2015]

Physical Description

332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Summary

A provocative dual portrait of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth discusses how their tangled lives were shaped by 20th-century history and politics, sharing insights into their childhoods, respective beliefs and adversarial relationship.

Contents

  • Orphans
  • Home abroad
  • Domestic affairs
  • Other women
  • Civil War
  • The singing teapot
  • New roles
  • Arena
  • Clouds of war
  • Cold war
  • Monuments.

Subjects

Added Authors

Timothy Dwyer