In conversation with Louis Bayard, moderated by Mary Lynn Becza at Presbyterian Church Parish House, 1:20 pm to 2:10 pm
About the author
Edward F. O’Keefe is the CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. He previously spent two decades in broadcast and digital media at ABC News, CNN, and NowThis, 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’s coverage of 9/11. A former fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, he graduated with honors from Georgetown University. He was born in North Dakota and lives in New York with his wife, daughter, and son.
MFOB featured book: The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President
The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President offers a revisionist history of the rugged Rough Rider we think we know and instead celebrates five extraordinary women whose stories are lost in history – Theodore Roosevelt’s mother, two wives, and two sisters. This book gives readers a dazzling and lyrical look at one of America’s most significant presidents as we’ve never seen him before and proves that women played a much larger role in TR’s life and legacy than has been previously understood or acknowledged – that TR, the most masculine president in American memory, was the product of women.
A dazzling and lyrical look at the making of one of America’s most remarkable presidents, The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt celebrates five extraordinary yet unsung women who opened the door to the American Century and pushed Theodore Roosevelt through it.
