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Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady

Sylvia Jukes Morris

Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady

Paperback (Modern Library Sept. 4, 2001) , New Ed edition
Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circles as did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died at age twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the most successful romantic and political partnerships in American history. Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished letters and diaries brings to full life her portrait of the Roosevelts and their times. During her years as First Lady (1901-09), Edith Kermit Roosevelt dazzled social and political Washington as hostess, confidante, and mother of six, leading her husband to remark, "Mrs. Roosevelt comes a good deal nearer my ideal than I do myself."
Series
Modern Library (Paperback)
ISBN
0375757686 / 9780375757686
Pages
581
Weight
16.0 oz.
Dimensions
5.2 x 1.2 in.

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