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Mornings on Horseback
1981 book by David McCullough
Mornings on Horseback is a 1981 biography of the 26thPresident of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt written by popular historian David McCullough, covering the early part of Roosevelt's life.
The book won McCullough's second National Book Award[1] and his first Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography.[2]
Summary
"The process by which a spindly, ailing boy grew into this man is one of the enduring American mysteries." – Geoffrey Ward[3]
The story begins in New York in 1869 by introducing the family: father Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., mother Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt and their children Anna (called Bamie), Theodore, Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt) and Corinne (called Conie).
McCullough then flashes back to the backgrounds of Theodore, Sr. and Mittie, followed by their courtship and marriage, then the stories of their children, ending with Theodore's engagement