" An intimate biography of Teddie Roosevelt's early life as a sickly child growing up in a privileged family. All in all, though, it was a good read, especially if you are into political history. I would have liked it better if that had been cut shorter and some time was spent on Roosevelt's later political life, rather than ending it basically with his run for Mayor of NYC. It was interesting reading about it, but just too much time and detail was devoted to it. I think far too much time was spent on Roosevelt's early battles with asthma. " I enjoyed this book on TR, by David McCullough, although I don't think it was as good as the other two I read by him, John Adams and Truman.
This book gives many great prospectives about this great man that will be hard to find in other bios, such as Theodore Rex. I enjoyed the history of Theodore's Mother, Father, and Aunts and Uncles more than I enjoyed the sections about his own life. " I loved to learn about Roosevelt's family life.
Roosevelt's life is certainly very interesting, and a focus on his childhood and early adulthood really provides an interesting perspective on the facts that most people knew already but around which they had little personal historical context. "This was definitely a good book but a lot of it failed to really engage me. 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 spans seventeen years - from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, 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. FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS
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