04159cam a2200637 4500 2710925304 TxAuBib 20260320120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781797176376 1797176374 600782d4-59fb-4af7-b743-4499b31c8e53 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10216826 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib O'Keefe, Edward F. The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt [Libby Audiobook] : The Women Who Created a President. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 401MB. books about teddy roosevelt. corinne roosevelt robinson. alice roosevelt longworth. international women's day. martha bulloch roosevelt. presidential biography. edith kermit roosevelt. mornings on horseback. anna roosevelt cowles. presidential history. alice lee roosevelt. equal pay for women. Audie award winner. Women in politics. Eleanor Roosevelt. betty boyd caroli. women in history. david mccullough. man in the arena. Teddy Roosevelt. kathleen dalton. roosevelt women. strenuous life. edmund morris. Patriarchy. ed o keefe. ed okeeffe. Womanhood. feminism. herstory. HTML:<b>Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for History/Biography</b><br /> <br /> <b>Includes an exclusive audio postscript featuring archival recordings of the voices of the Roosevelts, including Theodore (one of the first US presidents to have his voice captured on audio), Eleanor, Edith, Corinne, and Alice.</b><br /> <b>An "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.</b><br /> Theodore 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.<br /> <br /> His 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.<br /> <br /> A "graceful and powerful book" (Candice Millard) filled with "meticulous research [and] perceptive insights" (<i>The New York Times</i>), <i>The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt</i> celebrates these five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Audie Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-19 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=600782d4-59fb-4af7-b743-4499b31c8e53&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)