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The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and in the end president of america, told by master historian David McCullough.
Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Compiled by David McCullough, the author of Truman, this is actually the story of any exceptional little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his battle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis observed in the context of the extremely uncommon household where he grew up.
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 mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also somewhat more, that your book makes clear as never before. You will discover sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TR’s first love. All are brought to life to make “a beautifully told story, filled up with fresh detail” (The NY Times Book Review).
A book to be continue reading many levels, it is at once an enthralling story, an excellent social history and a work of important scholarship which eliminates several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. It really is a book about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage, about “blessed” mornings on horseback under the wide blue skies of the Badlands.
