A Richmond Times-Dispatch Best Book of the Year When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter was transformed into "Princess Alice," arguably the century\'s first global celebrity.
Lively, intimate, and stylishly written, Hissing Cousins is a double biography of two extraordinary women whose entwined lives give us a sweeping look at the twentieth century in America..
When the family business is politics, winning trumps everything.
The cousins liked to play up their rivalry--in the 1930s they even wrote opposing syndicated newspaper columns and embarked on competing nationwide speaking tours.
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.
But their politics and personalities couldn\'t have been more distinct.
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.
Thirty-two years later, Alice\'s first cousin Eleanor moved into the White House as First Lady.
A Richmond Times-Dispatch Best Book of the Year When Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamboyant daughter was transformed into "Princess Alice," arguably the century\'s first global celebrity
