Mornings on Horseback The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt

Name: Mornings on Horseback The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
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ISBN: 9780671447540

ISBN-10: 0671447548

ISBN-13: 9780671447540

Edition: 1982

Authors: David McCullough

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Mornings on Horsebackis the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable,Newsday),it is the winner of theLos Angeles Times1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author ofTruman,this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised. The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 5/12/1982
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

David McCullough is a writer, historian, lecturer, & teacher. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman", as well as the Francis Parkman Prize, & the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award. He is also a two-time winner of the National Book Award, for history & for biography. He lives in Massachusetts.



Author's Note






Greatheart's Circle



Lady from the South



Grand Tour



A Disease of the Direst Suffering



Metamorphosis






Uptown



The Moral Effect



Father and Son






Harvard



Especially Pretty Alice



Home Is the Hunter



Politics



Strange and Terrible Fate



Chicago



Glory Days



Return


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index