num_pages: 308
description: A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelts first love by Mary Calvi author of Dear George Dear Mary.Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Leemany of them never before published If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life and cemented his legacy.Cambridge 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mothers generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt is on his own journey of discovery and when they meet unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever.If a Poem Could Live and Breathe is an indelible portrait of the authenticity of first love the heartache of loss and how overcoming the worst of lifes obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined.
language: English
title: If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
publisher: St. Martin's Press