08-08-2022, 10:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-09-2022, 12:04 AM by Eric the Green.)
Lots of sad passings these days. I can only hope there is more than this life. Otherwise life seems rather pointless. It is sad to lose people. I will miss him a lot. But will it matter that we have lost people, when we are lost too? Will I miss him when I am gone too?
Anyone interested in history can revere and appreciate David McCullough. He was an active writer through his 80s. His view was broad, sensible and compassionate. He brought out new facts, and better perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (/məˈkʌlə/; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American author, narrator, popular historian, and lecturer.[2] He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest civilian awards.[2][3]
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968); and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit; and he hosted American Experience for twelve years.
McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, Truman and John Adams, were adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively.
David McCullough is the citizen chronicler of the American story for our time.
McCullough is a unique--and uniquely American--humanist. He is a historian who immerses himself deeply in primary materials, a literary artist of the first order, and a trusted person who has projected serious reflection out to an unprecedentedly wide audience.
He is a humanist in the literal meaning of that word. He is interested in people rather than "the people." He takes the reader inside the social and mental worlds in which his subjects live; and he lets them speak for themselves with generous and illuminating citations from their own writings and speeches.
-- JAMES BILLINGTON
https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jeffers...-biography
Amanpour and Company replays an interview in 2019 on his final book.
Anyone interested in history can revere and appreciate David McCullough. He was an active writer through his 80s. His view was broad, sensible and compassionate. He brought out new facts, and better perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (/məˈkʌlə/; July 7, 1933 – August 7, 2022) was an American author, narrator, popular historian, and lecturer.[2] He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2006, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of the United States' highest civilian awards.[2][3]
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, McCullough earned a degree in English literature from Yale University. His first book was The Johnstown Flood (1968); and he wrote nine more on such topics as Harry S. Truman, John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Panama Canal, and the Wright brothers. McCullough also narrated numerous documentaries, such as The Civil War by Ken Burns, as well as the 2003 film Seabiscuit; and he hosted American Experience for twelve years.
McCullough's two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, Truman and John Adams, were adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively.
David McCullough is the citizen chronicler of the American story for our time.
McCullough is a unique--and uniquely American--humanist. He is a historian who immerses himself deeply in primary materials, a literary artist of the first order, and a trusted person who has projected serious reflection out to an unprecedentedly wide audience.
He is a humanist in the literal meaning of that word. He is interested in people rather than "the people." He takes the reader inside the social and mental worlds in which his subjects live; and he lets them speak for themselves with generous and illuminating citations from their own writings and speeches.
-- JAMES BILLINGTON
https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/jeffers...-biography
Amanpour and Company replays an interview in 2019 on his final book.