Growing up in North Dakota, O'Keefe recalls being taught the myth that Theodore Roosevelt, thought of as the most masculine president, was a self-made man.
WASHINGTON – Growing up in North Dakota, Edward O’Keefe recalls being taught the myth that Theodore Roosevelt , thought of as the most masculine president, was a self-made man. In his new book, O’Keefe dismantles that myth and replaces it with a comprehensive history of the five “extraordinary and unsung” women behind Roosevelt’s legacy., said through his years of studying the twenty-sixth president, he realized how instrumental these women were in his survival and success.
“So it’s from that he gets this incredible personality and empathy and also this ability to will his way through physical pain, to live what he would later call ‘the strenuous life,’” O’Keefe said. Bamie cared for Roosevelt’s infant daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and kept him apprised of political happenings during his westward venture to what was then the Dakota Territory following his wife and mother’s deaths.
First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s childhood companion and second wife, also proves to be an indispensable political compass to the president.
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