- Presidents, Childhood and youth, Biography, Large type books
This biography of young Theodore Roosevelt covers his youth when he demanded a strenuous life despite his asthma, weak eyes, and patrician family.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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- Author
- David McCullough
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- Quarto Publishing Group USA, G.K. Hall, Peter Smith Pub Inc
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743218306
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“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.”
David Gaub McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history.” He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, twice winner of the National Book Award, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
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