The Wright Brothers
Library Journal ★ 04/01/2015 McCullough (John Adams; 1776) effectively blends impeccable writing with historical rigor and strong character definition in his biography of Wright brothers Wilbur, the abstract thinker and introvert; and Orville, the extrovert and hands-on doer. They had limited formal education, with the author instead attributing his subjects' success to industry, imagination, and […]
The Greater Journey : Americans In Paris, 1830-1900
The New York Times – Stacy Schiff …[McCullough] explores the intellectual legacy that France settled on its 19th-century visitors. The result is an epic of ideas, as well as an exhilarating book of spells…McCullough's grand tour is impressionistic and discursive, proceeding by way of crossed paths and capsule biographies. This is history to be savored […]
The Path Between the Seas
1776
Gordon S. Wood – The Washington Post David McCullough, America\’s most celebrated popular historian, has done it again — written another engaging work of narrative history. This book, however, is very different from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams. Not only is it much shorter than those gigantic tomes, but it […]