Mark Bostridge Hardcover, $35 Farrar, Straus & Giroux October 2008 672 pages Last month my roommate and I watched a fairly awful made-for-TV-movie called Florence Nightingale starring one Jaclyn Smith. The film ended abruptly as Florence’s time in the Crimea was coming to a close, and since I knew that she had lived to be [...]
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Carol Felsenthal Paperback, $19.95 St. Martin’s Press December 2003 340 pages Alice Roosevelt Longworth was the daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt and wife of Senator Nick Longworth, but she carved out a place in Washington that was all her own. History has largely forgotten Alice, but this captivating biography restores her to her proper position. [...]
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