The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Author - Barbara Bush and the White House across

and the White House across the span of the nation's history

for books for intermediate and independent readers

This book provides an up-close historical look at these fascinating women who survived the scrutiny of the White House

a year that changes his life forever

Their eloquent words challenge all of us to answer: What does it truly mean to be a woman in the twenty-first century

The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Author - Barbara Bush and the White House acrossTheodore 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. Its little surprise hed be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. 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. Theodores college sweetheart and first wife,