Before the presidency
David McCullough centers Roosevelt’s early life, including family, childhood illness, and the experiences preceding his mature public career.
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Mornings on Horseback
ABOUT THE BOOK
A portrait of Theodore Roosevelt’s early life and the family that shaped him.
A CLOSER LOOK
The story behind it.
A portrait of Theodore Roosevelt’s early life and the family that shaped him.
The household matters
The biography gives family relationships and domestic surroundings substantial space. Those beginnings connect to the birthplace and early photograph elsewhere in the collection.
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