Mornings on Horseback
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981. Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5" 445 indexed pages. BCE / BOMC. Light tan boards w/almond cloth spine w/gold foil letters. DJ design by Richard Mantel. Genealogy lineage for paste downs. Author photo on back of DJ by Tom Victor. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Faint foxing on top edge. Small tears along DJ edges repaired w/archival tape. Secure ship w/track #. Price covers extra shipping weight. Very Good / VeryGood. Item #14745
ISBN: 0671227114
Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Mornings on Horseback is about the world of the young Theodore Roosevelt. 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. The book spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886 when, as a hardened "real life cowboy," he returns from the West to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit. The story does for Teddy Roosevelt what Sunrise at Campobello did for FDR -- reveals the inner man through his battle against dreadful odds. Source: Publisher.
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