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David McCullough
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David McCullough

David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other widely praised books are 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, and The Johnstown Flood. He has been honored with the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Boston Globe Bestsellers Jan. 30-Feb. 5
Boston Globe, February 3, 2012
...6. (tie) Plenty. By Yotam Ottolenghi. CHRONICLE. 6. Quiet. By Susan Cain. CROWN. 8. The Greater Journey. By David McCullough. SIMON & SCHUSTER. 9. Guinness World Records 2012. By Guinness World Records. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS. 10. The Lives of Margaret...
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ITbriefing, February 2, 2012
...that includes such unparalleled authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Michael Lewis, and David McCullough.� Simon & Schuster Audio has produced audiobooks that have won seven Grammy Awards and earned thirty-five...
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NorthFulton.com, February 2, 2012
...reading! Or as the French would say Bonne lecture! The Greater Journey: Americans in ParisBy David McCulloughBest-selling author David McCullough takes us on a journey to Paris with the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians,...
Maya Jasanoff's excellent 'Liberty's Exiles' takes a revealing look at the American Revolution
Cleveland Live, January 29, 2012
...Some of them, the property of George Washington, fled Mount Vernon in 1776, not a fact readers of David McCullough's much-loved "1776" would have gleaned. Indeed, part of the kick of "Liberty's Exiles" is its intriguing, inside-out narrative. Instead of...
Review: From Matthew Bowman, a timely, dignified history of Mormonism
Inside Bay Area, January 28, 2012
...interesting expression or opinion. Bowman strives for, and mostly achieves, the resonant, lofty tone of popular historians like David McCullough. This tone can work, but it has its pitfalls;yld_mgr.place_ad_here("adPosBox"); there seems to be no raw or...
Review: From Matthew Bowman, a timely, dignified history of Mormonism
San Jose Mercury News, January 28, 2012
...interesting expression or opinion. Bowman strives for, and mostly achieves, the resonant, lofty tone of popular historians like David McCullough. This tone can work, but it has its pitfalls; there seems to be no raw or weird experience that Bowman can't...
Boston Globe Bestsellers Jan. 23-29
Boston Globe, January 27, 2012
...& GIROUX. 4. Catherine the Great. By Robert K. Massie. RANDOM HOUSE. 6. (tie) The Greater Journey. By David McCullough. SIMON & SCHUSTER. 6. The World of Downton Abbey. By Jessica Fellowes. ST. MARTIN'S. 8. Jack Kennedy. By Christopher Matthews. SIMON &...