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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ManufacturerSimon & Schuster
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TitleMornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
ISBN0671447548
Author(s)David McCullough
Release Date12 May, 1982, 1982-05-12
FormatPaperback
Num of Pages370
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EAN9780671447540
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2 Star Rating  "Strictly for TR buffs-- but accidentally falsifies TR"2010-01-30
- Reviewed By Lyric Poet from San Francisco
Sometimes a project just goes wrong. DM seems to have drowned in the vast unpublished archive of Roosevelt diaries and letters he was so proud to be given access to. He needed another two years, and another draft, I fear, to digest it all. He has made TR boring-- an amazing feat. If there's a letter, DM quotes it all, mercilessly. If not, the event never happened, and everything about TR's youth that fascinates us somehow eluded letters and diaries! Or did DM think we needed a full picture of TR as a silly young Harvard snob to correct our heroic image of him? He quotes nearly in full a letter TR writes from Harvard about how he can't get the rug in his room to lie down. Yet-- here I got angry-- an entire TR buffalo hunt is merely mentioned in an aside. It lacked a letter to quote. That's DM's research problem. TR's lovesick honeymoon gushes exist, all of them, but they shouldn't be hung around his neck for us to read. Whose letters to his fiancee wouldn't make him look silly, in print? As for the "extraordinary" family, must we read his grown, drunken brother's babytalk letters to his Mom, "My own dear sweet Motherling! if she feels cold at night, she wraps a blanket around me, so that I wake up roasting." There's more about TR's old maidish sisters than about TR, full accounts quoted about his mother's old age neat freak habits, after TR was married. The one success is the full portrait of TR"s father, a "Christian gentleman" if there ever was one, and one of the kindest fathers to a difficult child who ever lived. With one more draft and massive cuts DM could have produced a splendid short bio on TR's father. As is, "mornings on horseback" is almost a deceitful title, inviting us to think we'll see Teddy out west. Instead, since he kept a diary, his life as a NY State assemblyman up in Albany during an unimportant era is described in boring detail. There's no balance. Whatever was in that archive, went in the book, and it's a weird picture of TR as a result. Strictly for buffs who can mentally adjust it.
 
5 Star Rating  "Consequences of Conscientious Character"2010-01-23
- Reviewed By Suresh Kalkunte from Austin, TX
The challenges the family endured while preserving a spirit of fair-play to everyone is most revealing in terms of how adverse health plays an unfortunate part in stunting if not stifling such efforts. I write this comment after reading the rapid descent in Theodore Roosevelt Sr.'s health leading to his demise at the epoch when his candidature for New York Custom House was considered by the US Senate.
 
5 Star Rating  "exceptional biography, interesting American history, well written"2010-01-10
- Reviewed By katie
This book, along with The Johnstown Flood is my favorite McCullough book. This is the first one I read by this author and I was hooked. If you like American history surrounding presidents and their families, you'll enjoy this. Teddy was quite a character to be admired. His family history is fascinating.
 
5 Star Rating  "A "Bully" Bio"2009-12-26
- Reviewed By all the letters of my real name from Bovine Universe
MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK gives us an extraordinary view of "TR" from the ground up, examining the early life of this remarkable figure in American history. It stops when "Teddy" is only twenty-seven, before he goes on to do and achieve those things that were to put his face on Mt Rushmore along with those of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. It begins by focusing on the first Theodore Roosevelt, the wealthy New York philanthropist whose good works included the American Museum of Natural History and whose honesty was a byword. He was also an excellent father who made time for the sickly asthmatic son who was his namesake.

David McCullough's work would be notable if all he had done was to restore the father's memory, all but buried under the greater achievements of the son, but this book goes farther by showing the Roosevelt family as a whole, their days of happiness and their sorrow when their father died at the relatively young age of forty-six.

Much has been made of the tragic legacy of the Kennedys of Boston; this book shows how a similar legacy haunted and inspired President Roosevelt. Early in his political career, he lost his mother and his young wife on almost the same day. His beloved younger brother seems to have been an alcoholic, dying at age thirty-four.

McCullough also shows how an early interest in natural history continued to influence and nurture Roosevelt's character, even as a natural relish for the fray made him an outstanding politician. David McCullough's prowess as an historian has never been more incisive as he peels down the myth surrounding Roosevelt to give us the young man. I can highly recommend this book to people interested in American history, young people afflicted with asthma, aspiring politicians and anyone who loves a good story and a well-written family drama.

(This review is based on the Simon & Schuster classic edition.)
 
5 Star Rating  "A gift"2009-11-27
- Reviewed By Reading Dottie from Arlington,Wa,USA
A gift for our son and he was thrilled!! He thinks this author is the very best. Has read many of his books.
 
2 Star Rating  "Good book on boring subject"2009-10-30
- Reviewed By Francois Villon from Fort Collins, CO United States
Why McCullough chose to write a book on such an unpromising subject - Roosevelt's childhood and early years - is a great mystery. There is very little of interest in the childhood years and that part of the book is mercilessly padded out with endless descriptions of houses, furnishings and distant relatives. It is much more interesting when we get to Roosevelt's political career and life in the wild west, but that is a relatively small part of the book. I belong to a book discussion group which had this as a selection, and the members agreed that it could be cut by about 40%-50% with very little loss. In any case it is of interest only to people with an indefatigable hunger for details about Roosevelt.
 
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