His mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. His father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, 'Greatheart,' a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake.

It is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household (and rarefied social world) in which he was raised. Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt.

Now with a new introduction by the author, Mornings on Horseback is reprinted as a Simon & Schuster Classic Edition. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. This is a tale about family love and family loyalty about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884 about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and 'blessed' mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands.Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Mornings on Horseback spans 17 years, from 1869 when little 'Teedie' is 10, to 1886 when he returns from the West a 'real life cowboy' to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit. His mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and celebrated beauty. His father, the first Theodore Roosevelt, 'Greatheart', is a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood. Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.

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