The U.S. has had its fair share of rebel teens in history, but an original American wild child grew up in the White House. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the eldest daughter of 26th President Theodore ...

At her White House wedding in 1906, Alice Lee Roosevelt, the lively daughter of Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, grabbed a military guard's sword and sliced her wedding cake in half. "Let ...

‘‘Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker’’ (Viking, 608 pages, $32.95), by Stacy A. Cordery: On Valentine’s Day in 1884, two days after the birth of his ...

MRS. LONGWORTH’S reminiscences cover the years between Roosevelt’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897 and Harding’s election in 1920. Always ‘aware of politics and politicians,’she ...