Brittany’s Reviews > The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President > Status Update

"He needed a first-class ticket to ride in Alice's world, and science was issuing no tickets in that class." Yuck.

I get the distinct impression from O'Keefe's writing that T. Roosevelt was in love with Alice Lee's family and the atmosphere of Chestnut Hill rather than Alice herself. Given the attention given to the family and home rather than lovely Alice.

"It is a striking, even strange sequence of thought, how the loss of a father would somehow be made up for by the acquisition of a wife, as if these two roles were interchangeable."

The book, so far, is interesting. A little heavy on the quotes and light on meaning or relevance. But I think what's bothering me most right now is O'Keefe's lack of viewing Roosevelt through the lens of his time instead of ours. He is a progressive and believed in women's rights to be sure, but he was raised in a time when a boy's father was the pinnacle of their world and he reflects that in his diary entries.