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Author talk – If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love
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.
Author Mary Calvi is a 13-time New York Emmy award-winning journalist and the anchor of the daily morning and noon news broadcasts at WCBS-TV in New York City. Since 2020 she has been the weekend anchor and weekday fill-in anchor for the syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition.
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