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MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK by David McCullough...
...sailing up the Nile in the winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so rarely gifted as to seem ... touched by the flame of the 'divine fire.' " But, as David McCullough's family portrait reveals, tragic cracks flawed all the Roosevelts, particularly the man who was, as if by mutual choice, the family's crown prince...
Teddy Roosevelt has become a kind of national myth, a Charles Atlas of the body and soul who proved the American credo: a man can make himself anything he wants to be. But McCullough argues that Teddy's childhood asthma was at least partly the psychosomatic complaint of a boy suffocated by the burden of overachievement...
...Path Between the Seas by David McCullough. When the Soviets subverted the government in Afghanistan in 1978, the official protests went out routinely, but in the National Security Council, Carter paid only perfunctory attention, though the act was clearly described to him as the possible prelude to trouble. When the Soviets invaded in 1979, the President's indignation was triggered by the act of the border crossing; his mind focused on that narrow episode, not on what had gone before...
Temple--Robinson 7 4-4 18; McCullough 2 3-6 7; Wister 3 0-2 6; Dodds 3 4-6 10; Broadnax 4 0-0 8; Parham 0 7-8 7; Davis 2 4-7 8; Tillman 0 0-1 0; Thompson 2 1-2 5; McLoughlin 7 0-0 14; Kaylor 0 2-2 2; Marks 0 0-0 0; Totals...