Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Subtitle: Portrait of a First Lady
By: by Sylvia Jukes Morris.
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 581
ISBN-13: 9780698109940
Subjects: Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 -- Family; Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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 Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished letters and diaries brings to full life her portrait of the Roosevelts and their times.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."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 521-524.
Includes index.