Mornings on horseback /

McCullough, David G.

Mornings on horseback / David McCullough. - New York : Simon and Schuster, c1981. - 445 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 413-424.

PART ONE : Greatheart's Circle -- Lady from the South -- Grand Tour -- A Disease of the Direct Suffering -- Metamorphosis -- PART TWO : Uptown -- The Moral Effect -- Father and Son -- PART THREE : Harvard -- Especially Pretty Alice -- Home Is the Hunter -- Politics -- Strange and Terrible Fate -- Chicago -- Glory Days -- Return.

This book chronicles the youth and family life of Theodore Roosevelt between 1869 and 1886, discussing his childhood asthma, the death of his first love Alice Lee, his election to the New York State Assembly, and his debut in national politics.



0671227114 : $19.95

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Childhood and youth.


Presidents--United States--Biography.


Biographies.

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