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Mornings on Horseback
- The Story of an Extraordinary Family, and the Unique Child who Became Theodore Roosevelt
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Publisher's Summary
His father, the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart", is a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and celebrated beauty.
Mornings on Horseback spans 17 years, from 1869 when little "Teedie" is 10, to 1886 when he returns from the West a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
This is a tale about family love and family loyalty; about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons; about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884; about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and "blessed" mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands.
What the critics say
- Audie Award Finalist, Biography/Memoir, 2005
"Edward Hermann offers a professional, nuanced, audience-capturing narration." (AudioFile)