{"product_id":"mornings-on-horseback-book-david-mccullough-9780671227111","title":"Mornings on Horseback","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe National Book Award-winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMornings on Horseback\u003c\/i\u003e is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece (John A. Gable, \u003ci\u003eNewsday), \u003c\/i\u003e it is the winner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author of \u003ci\u003eTruman, \u003c\/i\u003e this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TR's first love. All are brought to life to make a beautifully told story, filled with fresh detail (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA book to be read on many levels, it is at once an enthralling story, a brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. It is a book about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage, about blessed mornings on horseback beneath the wide blue skies of the Badlands.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49772815057169,"sku":"CIN0671227114G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50283598840081,"sku":"CIN0671227114A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51452450898193,"sku":"CIN0671227114VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53196135072017,"sku":"GOR008796039","price":22.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0671227114.jpg?v=1751041283","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/mornings-on-horseback-book-david-mccullough-9780671227111","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}