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 life's obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined. 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 life’s obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love is written by Mary Calvi and published by St. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother's generation. Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee―many 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.Ĭambridge, 1878.

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