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Alice Roosevelt Longworth had many titles. Celebrity, fashion icon, socialite, and political organizer. The eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt and wife of House Speaker Nicholas Longworth, she had access to the corridors of power and rarely held back from sharing her opinions. In the interviews with the Hagedorns, Mrs. Longworth displays that infamous silvery tongue with a reticence to divulge personal details for posterity. Her interviews span three days and include never before heard audio recordings. In her testimony she discusses the opposition to the League of Nations, life at Sagamore Hill and the White House, and the decades she spent engaged in Washington politics.
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Cullinane, M.P. (2021). The Other Washington Monument: Alice Roosevelt Longworth. In: Remembering Theodore Roosevelt . The World of the Roosevelts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69296-4_2
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