June Books of the Month
It's been awhile since I posted but also since I've done a Book of the Month post. This month I have two great books to tell you about: Hissing Cousins by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer and Model Woman by Robert Lacey. Hissing Cousins was published by Penguin Random House at the end of March. I've slowly been dipping into the book thanks to Net Galley. If you watched the recent Ken Burns documentary on The Roosevelts on PBS than you will definitely want to read this book. It gives the readers a more upclose and personal view on the relationship between Eleanor and Alice and also the dynamics between the Oyster Bay Roosevelts and the Hyde Park Roosevelts. ABOUT HISSING COUSINS: 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. W hen Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901, his beautiful and flamb...