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| | Amazon.ca: Alice & Edith: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In the end, neither Roosevelt's alternately "sweet, pretty" or "little, pink" first wife, Alice Lee, who died after three and a half years of marriage, nor Edith Carow, his wife of 36 years, who ruled both the White House and Sagamore with "an iron hand scarcely hidden in the velvet glove" are convincingly sympathetic. |
 | | A distinguished, long-time author, Wilson has written a biographical novel of the lives of Teddy Roosevelt's two wives, Alice Lee and Edith Carow, that is primarily a barely fictionalized retelling of the life of Edith Carow Roosevelt. |
 | | The book is marred initially by excessive, mediocre dialogue; elsewhere, it is pleasant to read, accurate, backed by an excellent bibliography that includes periodicals and serials, as well as books. |
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