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b'During Theodore Roosevelt\\u2019s presidency\\u2014from 1901 to 1909, when Mark Twain called him the most popular man in America\\u2014his 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\\u2019t smoke under his roof, she climbed to the top of the White House and smoked on the roof. She became the most famous woman in America\\u2014and even the world\\u2014predating Princess Diana and Jackie Kennedy as an object of public obsession.

As her celebrity grew, she continued to buck tradition, push against social norms, and pull political sway behind the curtain of privilege and access. She was known for her acerbic wit and outspoken tendencies which hypnotized both the social and political world.

Today\\u2019s guest is Shelley Fraser Mickle, author of \\u201cWhite House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America.\\u201d We explore what it would have been like to be a strong-willed, powerful woman of the 20th century aughts.
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