History from a Woman's Perspective- A Book Blog

White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America  Author: Shelley Fraser Mickle Genre: History, Nonfiction, Biography  Publisher: Imagine Release Date: 2023 Pages: 256 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The fascinating historical biography of America’s most memorable first daughter, Alice Roosevelt, whose free spirit and status made her the Princess Diana and Jackie O of the early 20th century.       During Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency—from 1901 to 1909, when Mark Twain called him the most popular man in America—his daughter Alice Roosevelt mesmerized the world with her antics and beauty.      Alice was known for carrying a gun, a copy of the Constitution, and a green snake in her purse. When her father told her she couldn’t smoke under his roof, she climbed to the top of the White House and smoked on the roof. She became the most famous w...

American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt Author: Stephanie Marie Thornton Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Berkley Release Date: March 12, 2019 Pages: 448 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: Alice may be the president's daughter, but she's nobody's darling. As bold as her signature color Alice Blue, the gum-chewing, cigarette-smoking, poker-playing First Daughter discovers that the only way for a woman to stand out in Washington is to make waves--oceans of them. With the canny sophistication of the savviest politician on the Hill, Alice uses her celebrity to her advantage, testing the limits of her power and the seductive thrill of political entanglements.      But Washington, DC is rife with heartaches and betrayals, and when Alice falls hard for a smooth-talking congressman it will take everything this rebel has to emerge triumphant and claim her place as an American icon. As Alice soldiers through t...

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America Author: Catherine Kerrison Genre: Nonfiction, History, Biography Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2018 Pages: 334 Source: Netgalley/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America.      Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson’s Daughters , Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women’s history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women—and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from the American Revolution.                   Although the three women shared a ...

America’s First Daughter Author: Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: William Morrow Release Date: March 1, 2016 Pages: 624 Source: Edelweiss/Publisher in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: In a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestselling authors Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy.      From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter, she becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France.      It is in Paris, at the gl...