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 enlarge | Author: David Mccullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 1506
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 370
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 14.5 x 9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0671447548
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.9110924
EAN: 9780671447540
ASIN: 0671447548
Publication Date: May 12, 1982
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 Mornings on Horseback July 5, 2008
This is the wonderful story of the personal life of Theodore Roosevelt. If you love American history and admire TR, this is a must-read. I have bought it for members of my family who can't get enough of this man. We have read the biographies of him that lean heavily on his public service. Mornings on Horseback is about his family, heartaches, personality, and heart. I loved it.
This Book Answers: What made Teddy Roosevelt Tick? June 10, 2008
Teddy was a small frail asthmatic child whose iron will and loving family helped transform him into one of the most powerful leaders of all time.
This is truly an inspirational book that lets us peek behind the curtain of an upper class family in the late 1800's. Teddy was blessed with two loving parents who nurtured him with the things he needed to grow into an amazing human being.
His mother was a beautiful lady who was always there for him. His father would take Teddy on long rides in the country when he had bouts of asthma and encourage him to work out and become stronger.
Teddy had an insatiable curiosity about nature as a child. He read constantly about wildlife and insects and become a serious collector.
Roosevelt's life was not without tragedy. When he was in his early twenties he lost both his mother to illness and his young wife at childbirth all within a 24 hour period. He loved them both deeply and was shattered.
Immediately afterwards he gave his new child to a sister and moved out west in search of himself. At first he was disliked and considered a dandy by cowboys because of his snobbishness. But, he soon gained their respect by enduring the same hardships and by accepting them for who they were.
I read this book some time ago and it is still one of my favorite books. David McCullough not only thoroughly gathers facts and data for this work, he brings to life a different time and recreates the feelings, emotions, thoughts and attitudes of the Roosevelt family.
Overall this is an incredible book!
The Re-Discovery of Common Sense: A Guide to: The Lost Art of Critical Thinking
McCullough never disappoints.... June 9, 2008
`Mornings on Horseback' by David McCullough
Once again, Mr. McCullough delivers a superbly researched, compulsively readable historical account; this issue focused on the young Theodore Roosevelt. This work examines the Roosevelt family origins in America and rise to national prominence; TR's father and his philanthropic works; a young Theodore struggling with asthma in an age when proper treatment was as yet far from effective; an insular family and the dynamic within; and finally to TR as a young, adventurous adult coping with devastating loss.
`Mornings on Horseback' will be as enjoyable to the individual seeking an intro to Theodore Roosevelt as it will to the TR aficionado. As usual, David McCullough's brilliant style shines through and captivates the reader from the first page to last. One note: if you're looking for a comprehensive bio of TR, this is not it. This book covers Theodore's early years but does not go so far as to delve into his ambitions for high political office. Nevertheless, this is a masterful book that is sure to bring enjoyment to any lover of history.
 Details.... May 9, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great details. I have no idea and how long it must take to do the research but I always enjoy Mr. McGullough's books. He lets you see the human side of heros without tearing them down but showing true life.
 Not McCullough's Best April 5, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
David McCullough's "Mornings on Horseback" is a biography of Theodore Roosevelt's early life, tracing his family background and telling the story of his youth until the time of his second marriage at age twenty-eight. The book's subtitle is "The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt."
The subtitle gives a fair description of the book's contents, but, truth to tell, much of the early part of the book telling of TR's fragile health and pampered upper-class upbringing was a bit boring, even the recounting of a year-long trip to Great Britain and the Continent when TR was eleven years old, drawn from TR's boyhood diaries. In the next chapter, McCullough spends twenty pages discussing asthma and its effects both generally and how it affected TR.
By Part Three of the book, interest picks up with TR going off to Harvard and, after graduation, his marriage to his first wife, Alice. And then, tragedy struck, his mother and his wife dying within days of each other in the same house, and to overcome his grief, TR threw himself into politics in New York and cattle ranching in the Dakota Bad Lands, where he made friendships with other gentleman ranchers like the flamboyant Marquis de Mores. He wrote two books about his time in the West, describing some of his adventures in "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman." "Mornings on Horseback" ends with TR's engagement and marriage to Edith Carow, whom TR had known since childhood, "a very known and admired quantity, as close to the family as anyone could be...."
In an "Afterword," we read of TR's becoming the youngest President in history with the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, with a review of some of the political offices he had held previous to becoming Vice-President and his role as a colonel in the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War. One gets the feeling that all of this will be fleshed out in a subsequent book by David McCullough.
Having read and enjoyed McCullough's biographies of John Adams and Truman and his wonderful book about the Panama Canal, "The Path between the Seas," I must say I was a little disappointed with "Mornings on Horseback." Perhaps it was the subject matter, but no doubt I will read McCullough's next book on Theodore Roosevelt, should he choose to undertake that project.
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