The new exhibition The President's Wife and the Librarian portrays the relationship between Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Marion King.
In this event, the author of Mrs. Roosevelt's definitive biography introduces the wider world of the First Lady's influential life and tumultuous era.
Newsweek called
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady "marvelously full-blooded, engagingly written," and in The Washington Post, R.W.B. Lewis said it is "an endlessly engrossing book, at once of historical and human importance."
Sylvia Jukes Morris is more recently the author of
Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce (Random House, 1997) and has published articles in the New York Times Magazine and served as a judge for the National Book Awards. She has appeared on PBS' American Experience, A&E's Biography, C-SPAN, and the History Channel.
