Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It's little surprise he'd be a feminist, given the women he grew up with.
Join us Friday, online and free, for A Literary Cocktail Hour featuring Edward O'Keefe, author of a new book "The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President," in conversation with historian Michael Cullinane.
The book tells the story how five women influenced his life and his image— his mother, two sisters, and two wives. Theodore Roosevelt was married twice (his first wife died at age 22), and he was the father of six children, including Ethel Roosevelt, whose daughter, Sarah Alden Derby, became the wife of Windham County's State Senator Robert Gannett. The Gannetts lived in Brattleboro and are buried in Meeting House Hill Cemetery.
On September 1, 1902, Roosevelt made an appearance in Brattleboro as part of a barnstorming tour through New England.
Edward F. O'Keefe is the CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. He previously spent two decades in broadcast and digital media, during which time he received a Primetime Emmy Award for his work with Anthony Bourdain, two Webby Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award for ABC News coverage of 9/11.
Michael Cullinane is a historian of American politics, an award-winning author, and the Lowman Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University. He also serves as a Public Historian for the Theodore Roosevelt Association and contributes to the design and curation of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library due to open in 2026.
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