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Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as "a masterpiece" (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author... read more
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Summary edit
audio version of this book - 8.8 hrs.
Characters/People edit
- Mr. Theodore Roosevelt: Add a description of this character.
- Martha Stewart Elliott Bulloch
- Miss Alice Lee
- James Gillespie Blaine
- Anna Roosevelt Cowles
- Elliott Roosevelt
- Corinne Douglas Robinson
- Anna Bulloch Gracie
- Roscoe Conkling
- Ellie
- Marquis de Mores
- Arthur Cutler
- Lucy Hayes
- Jay Gould
- Mr. George William Curtis
- James Alfred Roosevelt
- George Franklin Edmunds
- William Sewall
- Mr. Robert Roosevelt
- Millie
- Douglas Robinson
- Charles W. Eliot
- Edith Carow Roosevelt
- Fanny Smith
- Carl Schurz
- Lincoln Lang
- Owen Wister
- Westbrook
- James Dunwody Bulloch
- Mary Ann
- P. James Roosevelt
- Charles Sumner
- Thomas Alvord
- James Russell Lowell
- Harry Shaw
- Alfred Benson
- Mark Hanna
- Mrs. William Baker
- Jim Fisk
- Richard Henry Dana
- Charles Loring Brace
- Johnny O'Brien
- Horace White
- James K. Gracie
- William E. Dodge
- Nicholas Roosevelt
- Erastus Brooks
- Uncle Hilborne
- George Cabot Lee
- Irvine Bulloch
- William James
- Anna Hall
- Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt
- William Coffee Daniell
- Archibald Bulloch
- Michael C. Murphy
- Louisa Schuyler
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Mayne Reid
- Isaac Hunt
- Susan West
- Josiah Quincy
- Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
- Gregor Lang
- Proust
- Billy O'Neil
- Robert Bacon
- John Noland Mackenzie
- Abram Hewitt
- Henry James
- Lucy Sorrel Elliott
- Charles Francis Adams
- Jefferson Davis
- Dr. Hilborne West
- John D. Long
- Daniel Stuart Elliott
- Richard Trimble
- Aunt Laura
- Charles Washburn
- Samuel Tilden
- Henry Minot
- Hagedorn
- Quentin Roosevelt
- Tom Daniell
- James Stephens Bulloch
- John A. Logan
- Henry L. Higginson
- William Hudson
- Robert Todd Lincoln
- Jake Hess
- Rose Saltonstall
- Victor Hugo Stickney
- Dr. Morrill Wyman
- Edwin A. Merritt
- Margaret Barnhill
- Noel Paovitch
- Titus Sheard
- William McKinley
- Harry Chapin
- Barrington King
- Mr. Lynch
- Sara Delano
- Elizabeth Ellis Roosevelt
- Mrs. Robert Bacon
- Mrs. Selmes
- Richard Welling
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Joseph Foraker
- Anna Eleanor
- Godkin
- Henry George
- Joseph H. Choate
- Abraham Lincoln
- Riley Luffsey
- Jack Tebbets
- Henry Adams
- Bess
- John Metcalfe
- Ward McAllister
- James A. Garfield
- Joe Ferris
- Andrew D. White
- Cousin Emlen
- Samuel Gompers
- Willie Lincoln
- Minot Weld
- Russell Sage
- Howard Potter
- Weir Roosevelt
- Mrs. Minnie O'Shea Fortescue
- John Sherman
- Dr. Polk
- Elihu Root
- Mrs. Burton Harrison
- William Roscoe Thayer
- Webb Hayes
- Jean Stobo
- Ellen
- Theodore Bronson
- Hubert O. Thompson
- Mrs. Lincoln
- John Hay
- Strauss
- Bill Merrifield
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Powell Clayton
- Chester A. Arthur
- Charles Dunbar
- Richard Saltonstall
- Albert S. Bickmore
- Leverett Saltonstall
- Dr. John Hall
- Henry Honeychurch Gorringe
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Poultney Bigelow
- Boies Penrose
- Mr. John Wood
- C. S. Hanks
- Seth Low
- Tilden Selmes
- Medora von Hoffman
- Baby Lee
- Mark Sullivan
- Mulligan
- Mrs. William B. Astor
- Charles Fayette Taylor
- Salar Jung
- Dora Watkins
- Grover Cleveland
- Wilmot Dow
- George Haven Putnam
- Henry Hyde Salter
- George Spinney
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Joe Murray
- T. R. Westbrook
- Thomas C. Platt
- Remington
- William Evarts
- Tom King
- Parkman
- John Elliott Ward
- George H. Palmer
- John Woodbury
- Ethel Roosevelt
- Madame de Mores
- Henry Stiles
- Cousin Maud
- Mr. Greatheart
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- Corinne Douglas Robinson
- G. Blaine
- Martha Stewart Elliott Bulloch
- Mr. Spee-kar
- Arnold O. Goplen
- Mrs. Joseph Alsop
- Mr. St. John
- Salvador Minuchin
- Nell
- Elting E. Morison
- Gilbert Moxley Sorrel
- Mr. Lodge
- Le Baron Bradford Prince
- Elizabeth Mills Reid
- Louis Vachon
- St. Paul
- Mr. Eliot
- Sophie Vedder
- Mittie Bulloch
- Mittie Roosevelt
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Chicago
- Albany
- Washington, D.C.
- Europe
- Paris
- Maine
- London
- Cambridge
- Boston
- Philadelphia
- Georgia
- Vienna
- United States
- Oyster Bay
- India
- Irvine
- Brooklyn
- France
- Cincinnati
- Alabama
- Dresden
- Ohio
- Switzerland
- New England
- Texas
- Liverpool
- Chestnut Hill
- Wyoming
- Illinois
- Long Island
- Cairo
- Central Park
- Baltimore
- Pennsylvania
First Sentence edit
IN THE YEAR 1869, when the population of New York City had reached nearly a million, the occupants of 28 East 20th Street, a five-story brownstone, numbered six, exclusive of the servants.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Note
PART ONE
1. Greatheart's Circle
2. Lady from the South
3. Grand Tour
4. A Disease of the Direst Suffering
5. Metamorphosis
PART TWO
6. Uptown
7. The Moral Effect
8. Father and Son
PART THREE
9. Harvard
10. Especially Pretty Alice
11. Home is the Hunter
12. Politics
13. Strange and Terrible Fate
14. Chicago
15. Glory Days
16. Return
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series & Lists edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- David G. McCullough (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0671227114
Page Count: 445
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1981
ISBN: 0671227114
Page Count: 445
Awards edit
- National Book Award (1982: Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), Winner)
- Pulitzer Prize (Finalist, 1982: Biography or Autobiography)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1981: Biography)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: E757 .M45 1981
- Dewey: 973.9110924
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 19th Century › Turn of the Century
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Leaders & Leadership
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( R ) › Roosevelt, Theodore
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Presidents & Heads of State
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Political
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- David McCullough: Publisher's website.
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