![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also a fascinating and unique look at pre-Revolutionary War society, with its misunderstandings and simmering resentments, and notable for the author’s use of contemporaneous documents.” -BOOKLIST “Calvi’s portrait of Washington as an earnest young man striving for success but beleaguered on every front is convincing and, in a way, endearing. On DEAR GEORGE, DEAR MARY: A NOVEL OF GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FIRST LOVE Her in-depth research for her debut book, DEAR GEORGE, DEAR MARY: A NOVEL OF GEORGE WASHINGTON’S FIRST LOVE, is the basis of a Smithsonian Channel documentary. Many of these letters have never been published and were long believed destroyed. Her second novel, IF A POEM COULD LIVE AND BREATHE: A NOVEL OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S FIRST LOVE, is based on love letters from the Gilded Age to and from Roosevelt and his first love, Alice Lee. MARY CALVI is a 14-time New York Emmy award-winning journalist. ![]()
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