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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love Audiobook
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A fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt’s 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 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.
Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother’s 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 life’s obstacles can push one to greatness never imagined.
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“Lauren Ezzo provides an intelligent and expressive narration of this fine historical romance…Ezzo excels at conveying Lee’s privileged ‘Boston Brahmin’ world, as well as that of Harvard University…Most intriguing are Roosevelt and Lee’s impassioned conversations on women’s equality and education.”
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“An entertaining novel to devour with tissues nearby.”
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“The authenticity of Theodore’s feelings for Alice is made palpable in the magnetic narrative, and the inclusion of his love letters to Alice, some published for the very first time, is a nice touch.”
— Publishers Weekly
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About Mary Calvi
Mary Calvi is a novelist, an award–winning journalist, and newsmagazine and television anchor. Her in-depth research for her debut book, Dear George, Dear Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s First Love, is the basis of a Smithsonian Channel documentary. She is the co-anchor of news broadcasts at WCBS-TV in New York City and the syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition. Over the course of her career, she has won thirteen New York Emmy Awards.
About Lauren Ezzo
Lauren Ezzo, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a commercial voice talent and Chicago-based actor and graduate of Hope College. She has acted in Peppermint Creek Theatre Company’s world premiere of Or You Could Kiss Me. Her narrations have placed her on several “Best of the Year” lists, including AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of the Year list. In 2018, she was part of a full cast of narrators nominated for the prestigious Audie Award for Best Original Work.