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Author: Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Title: Crowded Hours: Reminiscences
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1933
Description:

Gilt-stamped red cloth. Jacket. First Edition.

Signed by the author who is also Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, on front free endpaper.

Alice Roosevelt was a celebrity First Daughter known for antics like smoking on the White House roof, carrying a snake in her purse, and betting at horse races. Her parents swallowed their aggravation because the public clearly adored her. When Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919, Alice led the charge to keep the U.S. from joining the League of Nations by exerting her influencing over legislators. In the 1920s she was intimately connected to two of the most powerful men in Washington—Nicholas Longworth (whom she married in 1906) who became Speaker of the House in 1925, and her lover, Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Alice gave birth to her only child, Paulina, in 1925. Alice Roosevelt wrote her memoirs, entitled Crowded Hours, in 1933, and with her brother Ted, co-edited The Desk-Drawer Anthology: Poems for the American People in 1938. She allowed her likeness to be used in a cold cream and a cigarette advertisement, in part to raise money for her daughter. For six decades she hosted a salon at her Dupont Circle home where views were exchanged and deals struck. She invited scientists, authors, conservationists, diplomats, and politicians of all persuasions. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was well known for her witticisms. She suggested that Franklin Roosevelt was "one-thirds mush and two-thirds Eleanor," and after a double mastectomy late in life she called herself "Washington's only topless octogenarian." At her tea table she kept a pillow which read, "If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." Called "the other Washington monument," she kept alive the memory of her father and family members until her death at age 96 in 1980

Light rubbing and creasing to jacket at spine ends, a bit of toning and soiling; very slight bump at foot of rear board; sticker on rear pastedown; near fine in near fine jacket.