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McCullough, David G.

Mornings on horseback / - New York : Simon and Schuster, �1981. - 445 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Genealogical table on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-424) and index.

Author's Note -- 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 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This biography of young Theodore Roosevelt covers his youth when he demanded a strenuous life despite his asthma, weak eyes, and patrician family.

ISBN: 0671227114 9780671227111 0671447548 (pbk.) 9780671447540 (pbk.)

LCCN: 81001697

Subjects--Personal Names:
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Childhood and youth.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Roosevelt, Theodore.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents--United States--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographie.

LC Class. No.: E757 / .M45

Dewey Class. No.: 973.91/1/0924