The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President -- Edward F. O'Keefe, Hardcover Deborah Blum --Booklist on The Hollow Queen

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and her eventual capture unearths a reality that is darker than her worst nightmares

my mother is running around the house making sure all the windows are barred and the doors locked

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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President -- Edward F. O'Keefe, Hardcover Deborah Blum --Booklist on The Hollow QueenA spirited and poignant 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. 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. His mother, Mittie,