{"product_id":"loves-of-theodore-roosevelt-the-women-who-created-a-president","title":"Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President by Edward O'Keefe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \"elegant and illuminating\" (Jon Meacham) family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It's little surprise he'd be a feminist, given the women he grew up with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis mother, Mittie, was witty and decisive, a Southern belle raising four young children in New York while her husband spent long stretches away with the Union Army. Theodore's college sweetheart and first wife, Alice--so vivacious she was known as Sunshine--steered her beau away from science (he'd roam campus with taxidermy specimens in his pockets) and towards politics. Older sister Bamie would soon become her brother's key political strategist and advisor; journalists called her Washington, DC, home \"the Little White House.\" Younger sister Conie served as her brother's press secretary before the role existed, slipping stories of his heroics in Cuba and his rambunctious home life to reporters to create the legend of the Rough Rider we remember today. And Edith--Theodore's childhood playmate and second wife--would elevate the role of presidential spouse to an American institution, curating both the White House and her husband's legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \"graceful and powerful book\" (Candice Millard) filled with \"meticulous research [and] perceptive insights\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Loves of Theodore Roosevelt\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates these five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Edward F. O'Keefe has given us an elegant and illuminating account of the human side of one of the most consequential Americans in our history. By detailing Theodore Roosevelt's emotional connections to the women in his life, O'Keefe reminds us that leaders are not made of marble but of heart and flesh. This is a wonderful book.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jon Meacham,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd There Was Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A graceful, powerful book that lets us into the lives of the remarkable women who shaped an extraordinary man. If you want to truly understand Theodore Roosevelt, this book is an essential guide.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Candice Millard,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRiver of Doubt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"With meticulous research... [and] perceptive insights... O'Keefe has performed a most valuable service by reminding us how much Theodore Roosevelt, the most virile of presidents, owed to the brilliant women in his life.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\"It is not only feasible but advisable to make women equal to men before the law,\" Theodore Roosevelt wrote as a Harvard senior, anticipating suffrage by 40 years. The sentiment was consonant with the life, one shaped, advised, fortified, and energized by women. O'Keefe assembles that extraordinary cast here, nimbly cataloguing the strategic, transformative power of Roosevelt's mother, daughter, sisters, and wives, all of them complicit, to different and often remarkable degrees, in TR's meteoric career.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-- Stacy Schiff,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The language is beautiful... and seeing Theodore's life through the lens of his female family members gives it an intimacy sorely missed in many other biographies.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Entertaining.... [O'Keefe] celebrates [these extraordinary women's] devotion, skills and accomplishments. In doing so, he leads us to a better understanding of an equally extraordinary man.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdward F. O'Keefe \u003c\/strong\u003eis the CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. He previously spent two decades in broadcast and digital media, during which time he received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work with Anthony Bourdain, two Webby Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award for ABC News coverage of 9\/11. A former fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, he graduated with honors from Georgetown University. He was born in North Dakota and lives in New York with his wife, daughter, and son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePub Date: \u003cspan\u003eMay 06, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781982145705\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e464 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003epaperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45549857996986,"sku":"9781982145705","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_c3f39562-fb8b-4c15-88a8-8dbbb606d005.jpg?v=1769770760","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/loves-of-theodore-roosevelt-the-women-who-created-a-president","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}