Hissing Cousins

2016-03-08 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Marc Peyser
Release : 2016-03-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hissing Cousins written by Marc Peyser. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Thirty-two years later, Alice’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. But their politics and personalities couldn’t have been more distinct. 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 rivalry—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, Hissing Cousins is a double biography of two extraordinary women whose entwined lives give us a sweeping look at the twentieth century in America.

His Final Battle

2017-10-31 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Joseph Lelyveld
Release : 2017-10-31
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 59X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book His Final Battle written by Joseph Lelyveld. This book was released on 2017-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg In March 1944, as World War II raged and America’s next presidential election loomed, Franklin D. Roosevelt was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Driven by a belief that he had a duty to see the war through to the end, Roosevelt concealed his failing health and sought a fourth term—a term that he knew he might not live to complete. With unparalleled insight and deep compassion, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Joseph Lelyveld delves into Roosevelt’s thoughts, preoccupations, and motives during his last sixteen months, which saw the highly secretive Manhattan Project, the roar of D-Day, the landmark Yalta Conference and FDR’s hopes for a new world order—all as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem to their climax. His Final Battle delivers an extraordinary portrait of this famously inscrutable man, who was full of contradictions but a consummate leader to the very last.

Autumn in Venice

2019-05-14 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Release : 2019-05-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Autumn in Venice written by Andrea Di Robilant. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The illuminating story of writer and muse—which also examines the cost to a young woman of her association with a larger-than-life literary celebrity—Autumn in Venice is an intimate look at Hemingway’s final years. In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich, a striking Venetian girl just out of finishing school. Here Andrea di Robilant re-creates with sparkling clarity this surprising, years-long relationship, during which Adriana inspired a man thirty years her senior to complete his great final work. Hemingway used Adriana as the model for Renata in Across the River and into the Trees, and continued to visit Venice to see her; when the Ivanciches traveled to Cuba, Adriana was there as he wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time

2013-03 History

Author : Ira Katznelson
Release : 2013-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time written by Ira Katznelson. This book was released on 2013-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the New Deal era highlights the politicians and pundits of the time, many of whom advocated for questionable positions, including separation of the races and an American dictatorship.

Mrs. L.

1981 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Release : 1981
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Mrs. L. written by Alice Roosevelt Longworth. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her autobiography as she leafs through her personal scrapbook and reminisces about the people and events that filled her 96 years.

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