Mornings on Horseback – David McCullough – Audio Book

Mornings on Horseback – David McCullough : Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography fof the young Theodore Roosevelt. 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.

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. His mother – Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt – is a Southerner and celebrated beauty.

ornings 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.

This is a tale about family love and family loyalty… about courtship, childbirth and death, athers 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.

David McCullough write about history in a very easy way to read. History becomes a subject into which it is easy to plunge. What is remarkable in this book, let alone the politic’s part, is how far David McCullough goes to make us understand the events of the early life of Theodore Roosevelt, events which forged his destiny and let him become the President we all know about.