Book Reviews
I could be wrong, and often am, but I felt throughout Mornings on Horseback that Mr. McCullough wanted to write a book about Mittie and Bamie, and then refrained. The book he has written is excellent—we have no better social historian—but it doesn't address, out loud, that odd conspiracy of women that sabotages the self and encourages the machismo rubbish of a Teddy Roosevelt as he shoots the birds.
John Leonard - New York Times
[McCullough] brings us as close as anyone will ever get to understanding the unique alchemy of the Roosevelt family—and its power to help and hinder Theodore in his rise. It is a measure of the author's talent that one wishes the book were longer. We nw what happened to T.R. after 1886, of course, and a concise afterword sketches the subsequent careers of his siblings. But we want the details—for David McCullough has made us care deeply about every member of this vivid tribe.
Geoffrey C. Ward - New York Times Book Review
A fine account of Roosevelt's rise to manhood, well written and, like its subject, full of irrepressible vitality.
Denver Post