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McCullough, David was born on July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh. Son of Christian Hax and Ruth (Rankin) McCullough.
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From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a present-day photographer of vanishing America. Different as they are from each other, McCullough’s subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives.
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In the years around 1870, when the project was first undertaken, the concept of building an unprecedented bridge to span the East River between the great cities of Manhattan and Brooklyn required a vision and determination comparable to that which went into the building of the great cathedrals. Throughout the fourteen years of its construction, the odds against the successful completion of the bridge seemed staggering. Bodies were crushed and broken, lives lost, political empires fell, and surges of public emotion constantly threatened the project. But this is not merely the saga of an engineering miracle; it is a sweeping narrative of the social climate of the time and of the heores and rascals who had a hand in either constructing or exploiting the surpassing enterprise.
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The National Book Award–winning biography that tells the story of how young Teddy Roosevelt transformed himself from a sickly boy into the vigorous man who would become a war hero and ultimately president of the United States, told by master historian David McCullough. 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 of Truman, this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised. The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TR’s first love. All are brought to life to make “a beautifully told story, filled with fresh detail” (The New York Times Book Review). A book to be read on many levels, it is at once an enthralling story, a brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. It is a book about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage, about “blessed” mornings on horseback beneath the wide blue skies of the Badlands.
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America’s beloved and distinguished historian—now available from Encore for a great value! The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters—Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson—and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man—a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined—but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman’s story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. Drawing on archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was perhaps the most courageous president in our history.
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McCullough, David was born on July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh. Son of Christian Hax and Ruth (Rankin) McCullough.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1955. Doctor of Humane Letters, Skidmore College, 1983. Doctor of Humane Letters, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1984. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colorado College, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University New Hampshire, 1993.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Chatham College, 1994. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Beloit College, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1995.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), College William and Mary, 1996. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Grinnell College, 1997. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Dickinson College, 1998.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northeastern University, 2002. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Brandeis University, 2003. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), OH State University, 2003.
Doctor of Engineering (honorary), Villanova University, 1984. Doctorate (honorary), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1984. Doctorate (honorary), University Miami, 1996.
Doctorate (honorary), Grand Valley State University, 1997. Doctorate (honorary), Yale University, 1998. Doctorate (honorary), Brown University, 2000.
Doctorate (honorary), Tufts University, 2001. Doctorate (honorary), University Delaware, 2001. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Allegheny College, 1984.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Middlebury College, 1986. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Indiana University at Pennsylvania, 1991. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University South Carolina, 1993.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Pittsburgh, 1994. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Union College, 1994. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Washington College, 1994.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Hamilton College, 1996. Doctor of Letters (honorary), State University of New York, 1999. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Connecticut, 1999.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Vermont, 2002. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Dartmouth College, 2003. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Lafayette College, 1995.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1998. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Wheaton College, 2002.
Writer, editor, Time, Inc., New York City, 1956-1961;
writer, editor, United States Information Agency, Washington, 1961-1964;
writer, editor, American Heritage Public Company. New York City, 1964-1970;
senior contributing editor, American Heritage magazine
free-lance author, since 1970. Newman visiting professor American civilization, Cornell Univercity, fall 1989.
Member Bennington (Vermont) College Writers Workshop, 1978-1979. Scholar-in-residence U. N. Mexico, 1979, Wesleyan University Writers Conference, 1982, 83. Member of advisory board Center for the Book, Library. of Congress.
Past visiting professor Dartmouth College, Wesleyan University. Speaker and lecturer in field.
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Member Harry S. Truman Centennial Commission. Trustee National Trust History Preservation, Harry S. Truman Library. Institute, History Society Western Pennsylvania, Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Boston Public Library.
Honorary trustee Carnegie Institute. Founding member Protect History American. Fellow Society of America Historians (president).
Member American Society of Civil Engineers (honorary), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Arts and Letters, Society of America Historians (president since 1991).
Married Rosalee Ingram Barnes, December 18, 1954. Children: Melissa (Mistress John E. McDonald, Junior), David, William Barnes, Geoffrey Barnes, Doreen Kane.