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A Tortured Soul

Elliott Roosevelt – Brother of a President, Father of a First Lady

Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt warrants his own biography and, at last, with A Tortured Soul, he will have a thorough and fair-minded one. The story is not always pretty but it is compelling, provocative and, in an unexpected way, inspiring.

Elliott is the black sheep of the Roosevelt family. More than a century ago, a once-dashing young man’s contemptible behavior had come to disgrace the family and outrage his older brother Theodore, the future President of the United States.
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QUENTIN & FLORA

A Roosevelt and a Vanderbilt in Love during the Great War

For the first time, the charismatic tale of Quentin Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt’s youngest son, and his secret fiancée, Flora Payne Whitney, is told in rich and absorbing detail by an expert storyteller.

At the ebb of the Gilded Age, Quentin is the scion of America’s most celebrated political family. Flora is the privileged child of the Whitneys and Vanderbilts, two of the nation’s richest dynasties. The lives of Quentin and Flora intersect at the dawn of the Great War in Europe after each has grown up in the public spotlight.
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THE LION AND THE JOURNALIST

The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop

This is a richly drawn portrait of the exceptional lives to two great men. More than that, it’s a remarkable tale of power, politics and presidential courage woven through the little-known but vital friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and his friend and biographer, newspaperman Joseph Bucklin Bishop.

Roosevelt, privileged New Yorker and accidental president, and Bishop, a crafty editor from old New England stock …
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