Based on research into Teddy Roosevelt's early life and his first marriage, to Boston beauty Alice Lee, If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made Teddy Roosevelt into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legend.If you've read the Edmund Morris biographies or David McCullogh's Mornings on Horseback, you know that when Roosevelt's wife Alice died jus...
A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters, and personal journals. 'Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.' - George Washington
