Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Marc Peyser, Timothy Dwyer
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A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, two extraordinary women whose tangled lives provide a sweeping look at the twentieth century. 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, her first cousin Eleanor moved into the White House as First Lady. Born eight months and twenty blocks apart from each other in New York City, Eleanor and Alice spent a large part of their childhoods together and were far more alike than most historians acknowledge. But their politics and temperaments couldn't have been more distinct. Do-gooder Eleanor was committed to social justice but hated the limelight; acid-tongued Alice, who became the wife of philandering Republican congressman Nicholas Longworth, was an opponent of big government who gained notoriety for her cutting remarks (she famously quipped that dour President Coolidge “looked like he was weaned on a pickle”). While Eleanor revolutionized the role of First Lady with her outspoken passion for human rights, Alice made the most of her insider connections to influence politics, including doing as much to defeat the League of Nations as anyone in elective office.The cousins themselves liked to play up their oil-and-water relationship. “When I think of Frank and Eleanor in the White House I could grind my teeth to powder and blow them out my nose,” Alice once said. In the 1930s they even wrote opposing syndicated newspaper columns and embarked on competing nationwide speaking tours. Blood may be thicker than water, but when the family business is politics, winning trumps everything.Vivid, intimate, and stylishly written, Hissing Cousins finally sets this relationship center stage, revealing the contentious bond between two political trailblazers who short-circuited the rules of gender and power, each in her own way.
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- Brand: Nan A. Talese
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 1.30" w x 6.53" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 352 pages
Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, by Marc Peyser, Timothy Dwyer Review "A truly pleasurable new book ... The dual biography manages to give the reader what he or she wants—the juicy details of the spat—while simultaneously weaving the much bigger story of these dynamic women’s impact in a time when having an impact as a woman was far from easy ... Peyser and Dwyer’s tale is truly hard to put down." —The Daily Beast"[R]ipping but poignant... [T]his voume reminds us just how punishing life in a presidential family can be." —TIME"With aplomb, stylish prose and smart analysis, [Peyser and Dwyer] synthesize their sources smoothly into an entertaining and educational book. And by vividly blending the personal and the political, Peyser and Dwyer tell the cousins’ story with insight, humor, empathy and wisdom. In so doing, they call on the best qualities of their subjects to produce a welcome and absorbing addition to the ever-growing canon of Rooseveltiana." —Richmond Times-Dispatch"[C]lever, absorbing ... Peyser and Dwyer wisely avoid paying too much attention to the old theory that Alice was jealous of Eleanor for capturing Franklin, whom she wanted for herself. What Alice mostly felt was wild exasperation over the way political fate and circumstance set Franklin up as her father’s wrongful heir ... [E]ntertaining and often shrewd." —The Washington Post"[T]his new book focuses on a relationship that changed radically as these two women, both born in 1884, grew up and assumed their roles as leading figures in their respective political parties ... Both grab our sympathy as young women ... but in adulthood their differences couldn’t be starker." —The Boston Globe"[A] masterful chronicle of their lives and times." —The Washington Times"Hissing Cousins unravels the Machiavellian question that would haunt both women in their path to power: is it better to be clever, or is it better to be good? ... [T]he one thing Alice and Eleanor certainly got out of their enmity was an unwavering belief in their own selves ... It turns out that even among women, a little healthy competition is a good thing." —The Guardian"This is a brilliant idea for a book, brilliantly executed. With verve and insight, Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer have written a powerful and entertaining portrait of an important and overlooked American relationship. By charting the turbulent connection between Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Peyser and Dwyer take us inside a momentous family during momentous hours. A terrific read!" —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power"Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer have hit upon a most ingenious angle on the endlessly revelatory Roosevelt family, yielding a vivid, occasionally mind-boggling view of the conflicting impulses in our national character. Their portrait of these first cousins at odds is one of the most entertaining accounts of serious history I’ve read, eliciting laughter, groans and ultimately a certain panoramic comprehension." —Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution"Hissing Cousins is just delicious—sharp, touching, funny, and wise. Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer have brought to life a pair of the great women of the twentieth century, in all their human flaws and glory." —Evan Thomas, author of Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World"This is the beautifully-rendered and absorbing story of the seventy-year family rivalry between two of the most compelling women of the twentieth century—one Democrat, one Republican, both fascinating." —Jonathan Alter, author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope"For much of the twentieth century Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Longworth defined what it meant to be an influential woman in politics, although their personalities and styles could not have been more different. This part of the grand Roosevelt family saga has rarely been told, and never better." —H. W. Brands, author of Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt"A charming account of the fascinating relationship between two indomitable women of the 20th Century: Mrs, Democrat and Mrs. Republican." —Joyce Appleby, Professor Emerita, UCLA"Peyser and Dwyer's detailed and witty double biography is hard to put down, a fascinating look at an era and two exceptionally strong, intelligent women." —Booklist, starred"[A] compelling drama dimmed by the fog of time. The research is thorough and the prose is stylishly authoritative." —The Christian Science Monitor"[M]anages to encapsulate the sweeping saga of the Roosevelt family within its covers in a clear and readable fashion." —Chicago Tribune"[D]elightfully juicy ... The cousins’ rivalry was well known in its day ... but this is the first account that gets into the nasty details. It’s an enormously entertaining portrait, particularly of the acid-tongued Alice, who finally — in this book — manages to steal back the show." —Columbia Magazine"Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer have a can’t-miss subject on their hands, and they bring the reader along for an exhilarating ride." —BookPage"An entertaining retelling of a forgotten story, written for political junkies who enjoy the naughty and the nice." —Kirkus Reviews
About the Author Marc Peyser is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Life, Vogue, Time, the Huffington Post, Condé Nast Traveler, and the Best Business Writing 2003. He has also been an editor at Newsweek, Budget Travel, All You, and Money magazines.Timothy Dwyer was raised on Long Island's Eaton's Neck, swimming distance from Theodore Roosevelt's homestead at Sagamore Hill. He studied history and politics at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His work has appeared in Time, Washingtonian, and TheAtlantic.com. He is the chief executive officer of The School Choice Group, an education advisory company.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1orphansEleanor Roosevelt hoped no one would come to her funeral. What she really wanted was to scotch the whole affair and just have someone announce her death after she’d already been buried. “I’d like to be remembered happily if that is possible,” she said. “If that can’t be I’d rather be forgotten.” Forgotten? “I had to tell her,” said her friend William Turner Levy, “that she was being unrealistic.”Unrealistic, but not surprising. After all, this was the famously unfussy First Lady who served hot dogs to the king and queen of England during their 1939 state visit, who dragged her own suitcase around the world on countless humanitarian missions, and who insisted, after her husband died, that she’d never do anything newsworthy again. Naturally, she wanted her afterlife to be just as unpretentious as what came before. “Just a plain pine coffin covered with pine boughs. Inside the coffin are to be plain pillows and sheet with cloth,” she’d written in a letter to her doctor years earlier.The service was held in Hyde Park’s St. James’ Church, which seated just 250 people. Among those who didn’t make the guest list: Horace W. B. Donegan, the grandstanding Episcopal bishop of New York. The five Roosevelt children refused to invite him, dreading he would eulogize their mother at length. (He showed up anyway but otherwise kept quiet.) Even the weather seemed to cooperate with Eleanor’s wishes. November 10, 1962, was a cold, damp day with the wind blowing off the Hudson River and pushing the chill through the streets of the town.Yet the mourners, like the good bishop, weren’t going to let a cold shoulder stop them from saying good-bye. Thousands lined the roads, some standing five-deep to watch the hearse carry Mrs. Roosevelt from St. James’ to the Roosevelt mansion, Springwood, two miles away. For generations, the Roosevelts of Hyde Park had been buried in the quiet graveyard behind the little church, but President Roosevelt had requested that he and Eleanor be laid to rest in the large rose garden just to the side of the family home. It was, in its way, the perfect spot. After all, “Roosevelt” in Dutch means “field of roses.” Perhaps just as important, FDR’s overbearing mother, Sara, was tucked a safe distance away, resting in uncharacteristic silence back behind the church.The president’s arrangement, however, helped produce exactly the kind of funeral Eleanor wanted to avoid. It was as if someone had picked up the entire Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and dropped it into small-town America. The nightly news, including the BBC, delivered extensive coverage. Limousine-lock tied up the roads; amid all the excitement, two local keystone cops crashed their cruisers into each other right in front of the Hyde Park state police barracks. Most people were fans, but there were haters, too. One man standing along the funeral route waved a sign that read, “I’m glad you’re dead, Eleanor.” Two other men were arrested for carrying “derogatory” signs.The roster of invited guests might have been small, but it was A-plus-list. President and Mrs. Kennedy arrived on Air Force One (which was taking its maiden voyage and would be used, almost exactly one year later, to transport JFK’s body back from Dallas). Vice President and Mrs. Johnson came, as did the former presidents Truman and Eisenhower, making this the first time that three presidents attended the funeral of a First Lady. Chief Justice Warren, Secretary of State Rusk, Secretary of Defense McNamara, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Governor Rockefeller of New York, the United Nations ambassador Stevenson, and a sizable contingent of the Washington establishment were there. One well-aimed Soviet missile would have decimated the U.S. government.That was no idle concern. Mrs. Roosevelt’s funeral came at the tail end of the Cuban missile crisis. Just days earlier, Nikita Khrushchev had agreed to dismantle the Soviet missiles he’d lined up in Cuba like cigars ready to be lit, and Castro was still threatening to shoot down anything bigger than a kite that wandered into his airspace. The U.S. military was so concerned, the Pentagon wanted to install a kind of hotline in the pew at St. James’ where President Kennedy was to be seated. The Reverend Gordon Kidd said no. “If he had to talk on the phone during the service it would be terribly frustrating and confusing,” Kidd reasoned. The Feds settled for a phone placed unobtrusively on an outside wall of the church, though Eleanor would undoubtedly have scoffed at that, too. After all, Khrushchev didn’t scare her. She had visited him on his home turf in 1957 for a magazine interview, a somewhat tense meeting that ended with Khrushchev’s declaring his own sort of détente with one of the world’s most formidable women. “At least,” he said, “we didn’t shoot each other.” When he popped in for a visit at her woodsy Val-Kill cottage two years later, Eleanor had only one real worry. She realized she had no vodka—even though Khrushchev was coming at 7:00 a.m. (Her son John dutifully ran down a bottle.)Given all the world leaders Eleanor met and hosted over the years, it’s hardly surprising that she received what was arguably the first power funeral of an American woman. What was notable was that one of Washington’s most influential women was among the few who declined to attend. Her name was Alice Longworth. Mrs. L., as she was known, was a battle-ready Republican, a Capitol Hill institution with a biting wit, and a woman who, like Eleanor, tossed aside gender barriers as easily as she flicked the ashes off her long-stemmed cigarette holder. She was also Eleanor’s first cousin.Alice’s father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the older brother of Eleanor’s father, Elliott. To her cousin Eleanor, Alice was a childhood playmate, a teenage confidante, and, in adulthood, a relentless rival. Their relationship had taken a sharp turn for the worse thirty years earlier, when Franklin Roosevelt was elected president, a job Alice believed rightly belonged to her favorite brother, Theodore Roosevelt Jr.Over the years, the press played Alice and Eleanor off each other like rivals in a blue-blooded version of Oz: the good witch and the bad witch. Eleanor was the saint, the woman who revolutionized the role of First Lady with her very public activism, obvious concern for the poor and oppressed, and outspoken passion for human rights. She did more to cement the role of the United Nations in American and world diplomacy than any other woman and almost any man. Alice played the troublemaker. She relished any opportunity to tweak the stodgy establishment, and no one was more establishment—or, in Alice’s eyes, more sanctimonious—than Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. Eleanor didn’t just marry into the esteemed Roosevelt clan when she wed her fifth cousin Franklin. Roosevelt was also her maiden name.Yet Alice was, in her own way, as much a pillar of power as Eleanor. As Theodore Roosevelt’s beautiful and flamboyant daughter, she became arguably the century’s first global celebrity when her father entered the White House in 1901. “Princess Alice,” as she was known on the front page, made headlines for her clothes, her smoking, her parties, even her pets. Her straitlaced parents despised all that frivolous attention—except when they wanted to leverage her popularity for their political advantage. In 1905, when the president needed someone who could charm the Japanese as he tried to negotiate the end of the Russo-Japanese War, he sent twenty-one-year-old Alice as part of the delegation. When the trip was over and the treaty was signed, Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Alice had to settle for marrying one of the men who traveled to Asia with her, though Nick Longworth was an Ohio congressman and future Speaker of the House.As administrations came and went, Alice’s backroom influence ebbed and flowed, but like the Potomac she always cut a swath through Washington. She appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1927, joined official American delegations overseas into the 1950s, and was still sitting in the front row at presidential races into the 1970s. Along the way, Mrs. L. acquired another nickname: Washington’s Other Monument. She remained a force until she died, in 1980, at ninety-six. Such a force that every president from Truman to Ford made sure to pay homage at Longworth’s Massachusetts Avenue home on February 12—her birthday. Nixon, one of Alice’s personal favorites, came even at the height of the Watergate scandal.And so Mrs. Democrat and Mrs. Republican, as they were called in a Press Club comedy sketch in 1933, spent half a century engaged in an epic political battle while locked in familial embrace. During the height of the New Deal, it was not unusual for Alice to attack her Democratic cousins’ policies in the afternoon, via her syndicated newspaper column, then head over to the White House to join them for dinner. Their sparring could get painfully personal, given that both women staked a claim to the extraordinary, complicated, and sometimes contradictory legacy of Theodore Roosevelt. Before the Kennedys, the Bushes, or the Clintons, the Roosevelts showed just how close to a monarchy American democracy can veer. The name Roosevelt appeared on a national ticket an astonishing eight times in the twelve presidential elections from 1900 to 1944, and the extended Roosevelt family held dozens of elected and appointed positions at all levels of government throughout the twentieth century, right down to Franklin and Eleanor’s son Elliott’s term as mayor of Miami Beach in 1966.But this was much more than a family feud. As the twentieth century became the American century, Alice and Eleanor became vocal symbols of the country’s great debates. What was the right role for America on the world stage? The best way to prevent war? To address the gap between rich and poor? For that matter, what was the role of government—to shape society or get out of the way? Eleanor and Alice represented opposing sides on just about every one of those issues, and they fought for their beliefs—and against each other—as fiercely as any passionate partisan around. Typically, even their means of engagement were radically different. Eleanor was the dutiful but stubborn wife who used her First Lady status to fight for her beliefs in public, and even harder in private. Alice was more comfortable behind the scenes, wielding a whisper rather than a megaphone. But a few well-chosen, carefully placed words from Mrs. L. could torpedo a campaign or give new hope to an underdog. The Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey, belittled by Alice as looking like “the little man on the wedding cake,” saw his political career gravely injured amid smirks and laughter. For all their differences, the cousins share part of at least one important legacy: they short-circuited the twentieth century’s rules of gender. Their roles as power players are all the more impressive given that they didn’t even have the right to vote until they were thirty-six.Alice never explained why she didn’t join the pilgrimage to Hyde Park to say good-bye to Eleanor; after all, she rarely missed an opportunity to rub elbows with influential people. Some wondered if it was a parting shot, a final snub in a relationship often interrupted by stubborn, stony silences. But by the time Eleanor died, the personal barbs and caustic exchanges between the two cousins were largely a thing of the past. Like the late-in-life reconciliation between Adams and Jefferson 140 years earlier, the perspective of the passing years changed them. Their political passions never exactly cooled, but they boiled over less frequently amid the baggage of flawed marriages, difficult children, and the premature loss of parents and siblings. In those more human respects, Mrs. Democrat and Mrs. Republican found their lives mirroring each other in ways that must have astonished even them.For Alice and Eleanor, their oil-and-water bond was something of a birthright, bequeathed to them from their respective fathers and beyond. Even though he was almost two years younger than Theodore, Elliott had long been the Roosevelt family’s prime hope. Handsome and athletic, he was the favorite of his sisters and his mother, the kind of bighearted boy who would literally give you the clothes off his back, as he did one December when he saw a “street urchin” shivering in the New York cold and handed the boy his new overcoat. Elliott was seven. The family called him Nell, after the saintly Dickens character in The Old Curiosity Shop. Charm became his calling card. When he was twenty, Elliott took off on an around-the-world hunting excursion. On the ship from New York to England, he bumped into his distant cousins James and Sara Roosevelt, who were on their honeymoon. They became so taken with handsome, dashing, life-of-the-party Elliott that they asked him to be the godfather to their first child, who was born a little more than a year later. They named him Franklin Delano Roosevelt, making Eleanor’s father the godfather to her future husband.The Roosevelt boys were intrepid adventurers, but they were plagued by health problems. Theodore was an asthmatic child who spent much of his earliest years indoors, playing dolls with his sisters or reading in bed. Elliott developed debilitating headaches and unexplained seizures that forced him to drop out of St. Paul’s boarding school after one year. What made the brothers different was how they responded to their frailties. Theodore was determined and disciplined; he essentially worked and willed himself to health and to the apex of public life.Elliott slid in the other direction. Always the bon vivant, he acquired a self-destructive taste for liquor and women. The more his vices tarnished his status as the family golden boy, the more energy he poured into besting his big brother. If Teddy went to shoot big game out west, Elliott would go further—to hunt for tigers and elephants in India and the Himalayas. If Theodore married a great beauty, Elliott would snag a woman who was so breathtaking that the poet Robert Browning once asked to watch her portrait being painted, as a kind of inspiration. They could turn a garden-variety sibling rivalry into something practically Shakespearean. When Alice and Eleanor were about four, their fathers competed against each other in a polo match that almost became a medieval joust. It was Teddy’s Oyster Bay club versus Elliott’s “third-rate” Meadowbrook squad, as Theodore teasingly described them. With time running out, Teddy’s side had the match locked up, leading 6–1, but that didn’t stop him from taking off after Elliott when his little brother headed downfield at breakneck speed. Before anyone could see it coming, their horses collided. “There was a thump of horseflesh as brother tried to ride brother out. Suddenly—no one saw how—Theodore was thrown,” their younger sister, Corinne, wrote in a letter to their older sister, Anna. For several minutes he “neither moved nor stirred, and looked like a dead man.” When Theodore finally pulled himself up, he staggered around for hours and was unsteady on his feet for days. A week later, his wife, Edith, suffered a miscarriage.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful. Roosevelt family feud By wogan Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer tell the story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth (in one of the better titled books) - cousins and both residents at one time in the White House. Comparisons are made continuously through the pages rather than in separate chapters. One can get a smooth accounting of these two women by this method. We read of their upbringing, one from the Oyster Bay Roosevelts and one from the Hyde Park side of the family dynasty.Thankfully there is a family tree in the beginning to help sort out the numerous members of these relatives. The family tree is complicated and at times during reading it is hard to distinguish who is who because of the tendency of many of them having the same name. The insertion of nicknames for various members is not always made clear and can lead to some confusion and the need to turn back to discern which family member is the subject.Footnotes are an added bonus that explain political, world or familial background. When money is mentioned, it is translated into 2015 dollar worth, which also adds to an understanding.The commentaries between Alice and Eleanor are good. We read excerpts from diaries, letters, public statements and private conversations. Their fluctuating moods and relationships with each other, members of the family and friends are well explained and detailed.This is not a history of world events. Little is mentioned of even WWII. Instead the focus is on the two women themselves and how they dealt with their lives and those around them. What happens in the wider spectrum of world events is secondary.This is a good book for those who wish to learn more about a family surrounded by politics, society, life in Washington and of course what Eleanor and Alice were really like as individuals.
41 of 47 people found the following review helpful. Details matter... By Janeite This is a book that could benefit from either more grueling research by the authors, or a more discerning editor. I am in the early chapters & already find Lady Nancy Astor (1879-1964) mistakenly identified as the Astor who defined "New York's Four Hundred" in the 1880s & 1890s (it was in fact Caroline Schermerhorn Astor) & Franklin Roosevelt excitedly writing to his parents in 1902 about a social event he attended in Washington DC...when his father died in 1900. While it's an engaging enough read, my alert is up & I feel I can't trust the research...bad in a book like this that veers all too close to gossip rather than biography.
28 of 33 people found the following review helpful. A lively comparison between two political women By Connie The style of writing here is unique. The authors have entwined both Alice Roosevelt Longworth's life with that of Eleanor Roosevelt, paternal cousins born in 1884. As young girls they often got together to spend time together, but once Alice's father Teddy remarried, she became a feisty, outspoken women always wanting and needing attention. That perhaps comes from having her father put her in care of her aunt to raise her.These women truly were quite opposites in many ways, yet sharing many things as well. Alice became a staunch Republican; Eleanor remained a fierce Democrat. Both seemed to have had romantic interests in Franklin D, which of course Eleanor had won. Both ended up as political wives early in their marriages, but Alice was more about fame and fortune while Eleanor always had a concern for the poorer people in society. It's easy to take sides with Eleanor, because Alice's big fame was being the attractive daughter of a popular president. Both broke taboos in their own right; one politically and the other socially.This is not a book about the presidents Teddy and Franklin D Roosevelt, and the authors did a great job leaving the political history of the world wars out of this. The one big mention is the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s, in which Archie Roosevelt was involved. Anything that involved a Roosevelt from Alice's side brought out the warrior in her.So when did the cousins start hissing? It seems to have started in the 1920s, with Teddy now dead and Franklin D vying for New York State governor and later presidency. Once FDR was stricken with polio, the feud began in earnest. Alice is not portrayed here very well, she being a vindictive, jealous woman with anger while Eleanor became more assertive and independent at the same time. Did Alice also encourage the affair FDR had with Lucy Mercer all those years? When Franklin wins the 1932 presidency against Hoover, who was a friend of Alice, Alice becomes more sharp-tongued toward Eleanor. The hissing feud is well documented in the chapter "The Women in the Arena" and the next chapter, "Clouds of War."Being a big fan of Eleanor Roosevelt, I expected to read something about the rumor that Eleanor had a physical relationship with her friend and AP reporter Lorena Hickok. The authors do mention that relationship in the pages 199-204. "It was politics that lit their fires, it was politics that connected them..." (223) that best describes this life-long feud.Despite the many feuds depicted in this book between the women, the authors also defend them both. Neither had good role models for parents, and both had to cut their own images at a time of changing roles for women. This is especially true after both became widows.Eleanor died first, in 1962, and Alice lived another 18 years. After reading this book, one can agree that they deserve a spot in American history.
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