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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fantasy most talented girl in theA spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. 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. Its little surprise hed be a feminist, given the women he grew up with. His mother, Mittie, was