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Brave Companions
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1992
Grand. Heroic. Inspiring. Endearing.
BRAVE COMPANIONS is a leisurely stroll through the life and times of America. Put on your jacket, turn up the collar, grab your favorite walking-stick and set out for a fascinating walk with America's storyteller, David McCullough.
Washington, Agassiz, Remington, ...
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John Adams
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Best History Book I Ever Read!
I love American History around the time of the Revolution and the early American Republic. This book is great; you can feel like your back in-time along with John Adams and the others experiencing what they went through. Very imformative; there is a TON of stuff here ...
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1776
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2006
An Essential Book To Understand our American Heritage
This book deals with the pivotal year - 1776 - in the American Revolution. While the revolution started before and American victory ended at Yorktown in 1781, this is the year in which the fate of the American Revolution hung in the balance. There was still hope in ...
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who ...
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1982
Mornings on Horseback
This is the wonderful story of the personal life of Theodore Roosevelt. If you love American history and admire TR, this is a must-read. I have bought it for members of my family who can't get enough of this man. We have read the biographies of him that lean heavily on ...
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1983
Finally a McCullough Book I love
Why is the most effective of all of McCullough's books? He leaves out all those boring and hard to follow quotes and TELLS the story that he is so effective at doing. Yes, it still has more facts than most people would desire, but this being my third book about The ...
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The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1987
First person perspecitve on history
This early McCullough book provides a look at one of the most catastrophic disasters to strike America. The Johnstown Flood destroyed more than 2500 lives and changed the landscape of western Pennsylvania. It moved the nation towards relief efforts and spurred a ...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1978
How did they do this??
In November of 1971 I was ordered to Fort Sherman, Canal Zone for jungle operations training. In the two weeks that I was there I learned many things among which are the following:
1. The Jungle is the King.
2. Don't mess with the Jungle.
3. There are ...
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The Course of Human Events
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2005
Captivating. Picturesque. Vibrant.
To say that David McCullough has a way with words is like describing Mozart as having a way with music. McCullough has an ear for language and the spoken word the same way a wonderful photographer has an eye for a picture- it is just perfect.
McCullough gives us a ...
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1776: The Illustrated Edition
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 2007
best book ever written
1776 is the best book I have ever read, period. And it is non-fiction. I could not put it down.
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Truman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1993
wonderful sense of American history
I have read most of McCullough's books, and so I knew that after reading this I would understand Harry S. Truman more deeply than I ever had. What I didn't know what was that I would learn so much about 20th century American history. McCullough is a great story-teller. ...
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Mornings On Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who ...
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2003
Excellent Audio Version
The two readers for this meticulously researched biography of Theodore Roosevelt add appeal, especially when reading the parts with the southern lady or Irish accents. Well done!
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Faces
David McCullough
Amazon, 2006
Peeling off another layer from the Revolutionary onion...
...I believe that so many things can be said about 1776 -- both in terms of David McCullough's superbly written tome, or in relation to the historical period itself -- it often staggers...
FACES is a sublime example of the virtually *endless* perspectives one can ...
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Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen ...
David W. Mccullough
Three Rivers Press, 2002
A wonderful resource
This book contains stories from a thousand years of Irish kings, as drawn from primary sources. The book begins with the legendary stories of the Book of Invasions, and the stories of Cuchulain, Finn MacCool and Mad King Sweeney, all of which are translated in a clear ...
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who ...
David McCullough, 1982
This Book Answers: What made Teddy Roosevelt Tick?
Teddy was a small frail asthmatic child whose iron will and loving family helped transform him into one of the most powerful leaders of all time.
This is truly an inspirational book that lets us peek behind the curtain of an upper class family in the late 1800's. ...
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The Book of Abigail & John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784
Abigail Smith Adams, John Adams
Northeastern University Press, 2002
The First Harvard Collection of Adams Letters--1975
This collection is the first assemblage of the letters between John and Abigail Adams published by Harvard University Press. Subsequently, in 2007, an expanded collection was published by Harvard, under the editorship of different scholars, with the title of "My ...
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