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Loading... If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Loveby Mary Calvi
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was a pretty good book! I liked the characters! Teddy has always been a favorite person of mine, and this book made him come alive. I liked Alice a lot too! She had a lot of spunk! A definite must read! ( ) For readers interested in the life of Teddy Roosevelt, this historical novel provides thoughtful insights in to his romance with his first wife Alice. This was a piece of history with which I was not familiar. The book switches viewpoints among different characters in the book. It is well documented and supported with a list of sources and a section for further reading. I received this book from the publisher and from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed here are entirely my own. no reviews | add a review
"A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee-many of them never before published-If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy. Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother's generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and when they meet, unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever."-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6000Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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