David McCullough (1933–2022)
Autor(a) de John Adams
About the Author
David McCullough was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 7, 1933. He received a bachelor's degree in English literature from Yale University in 1955. After graduation, he moved to New York City and worked as a trainee at Sports Illustrated. He later worked as a writer and editor for the United mostrar mais States Information Agency, in Washington, D.C., including a position at American Heritage. His first book, The Johnstown Flood, was published in 1968. His other books include 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, and The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. He received the Pulitzer Prize twice for Truman and John Adams and the National Book Award twice for The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal and Mornings on Horseback. He also won two Francis Parkman Prizes, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and New York Public Library's Literary Lion Award. Two of his books, Truman and John Adams, have been adapted into a television movie and mini-series, respectively, by HBO. In December 2006, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also made the New York Times Best Seller List in 2015 with his book The Wright Brothers, and in 2017 with The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For. (Bowker Author Biography) David McCullough is a writer, historian, lecturer, & teacher. He has received the Pulitzer Prize for "Truman", as well as the Francis Parkman Prize, & the "Los Angeles Times" Book Award. He is also a two-time winner of the National Book Award, for history & for biography. He lives in Massachusetts. (Publisher Provided) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por David McCullough
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became… (1981) 2,752 exemplares
The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West (2019) 1,785 exemplares
David McCullough American History : John Adams; 1776; Truman; the Course of Human Events (2011) 16 exemplares
David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood,… (2011) 14 exemplares
David McCullough: The Presidential Biographies: John Adams, Mornings on Horseback, and Truman (1982) 10 exemplares
Great Moments in History: 1776 / The Johnstown Flood / Path Between the Seas / The Great Bridge / The Course of Human… (2011) 7 exemplares
American History 7 exemplares
Why history? : remarks by David McCullough in acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished… 4 exemplares
John Adams: Part 1: Join or Die [2008 TV series] — Writer — 3 exemplares
Faces 2 exemplares
Great Bridge: Volume Two 1 exemplar
The Autobiography of an Execution 1 exemplar
Timeless Leadership 1 exemplar
John Adams, Volume 2 (Unabridged) 1 exemplar
Short Stories 1 exemplar
The Brooklyn Bridge 1 exemplar
Adams (John Adams) 1 exemplar
The Lessons of History 1 exemplar
John Adams, Volume 1 (Unabridged) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
What If? The World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (1999) — Contribuidor — 1,736 exemplares
What Ifs? of American History : Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2003) — Contribuidor — 496 exemplares
A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Contribuidor — 454 exemplares
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contribuidor — 422 exemplares
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Prefácio — 105 exemplares
Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word: Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Art (1995) — Introdução — 40 exemplares
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1992 (1992) — Author "Truman Fires MacArthur" — 15 exemplares
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "The Revolution's Dunkirk" — 14 exemplares
Empires: Napoleon : Soldier, Emperor, Lover, Statesman [2006 TV episode] (2000) — Narrador — 12 exemplares
Ken Burns' America Collection (Brooklyn Bridge/The Statue of Liberty/Empire of the Air/The Congress/Thomas Hart… (1996) — Narrador — 12 exemplares
American Experience: The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter [1988 TV episode] (1980) — Narrador — 11 exemplares
American Experience: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring [1993 TV episode] (1993) — Narrador — 10 exemplares
American Experience: Last Stand at Little Big Horn [1992 TV episode] (1992) — Narrador — 10 exemplares
The Way West: How the West Was Lost and Won, 1845-1893 [1995 TV series] (1995) — Introdução — 8 exemplares
American Experience: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance [1988 TV episode] (1988) — Narrador — 7 exemplares
American Experience: Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad [1990 TV episode] (2007) — Narrador — 3 exemplares
American Experience: Andrew Carnegie, The Richest Man in the World [1997 TV episode] — Narrador — 2 exemplares
American Experience: The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry [1991 TV episode] (1991) — Narrador — 2 exemplares
The Great Air Race of 1924 [1989 film] — Narrador — 1 exemplar
American Experience: A Family Gathering [1989 TV episode] — Narrador — 1 exemplar
American Experience: Spy in the Sky [1996 TV episode] — Narrador — 1 exemplar
American Experience: That Rhythm, Those Blues [1988 TV episode] — Narrador — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- McCullough, David Gaub
- Data de nascimento
- 1933-07-07
- Data de falecimento
- 2022-08-07
- Localização do túmulo
- West Tisbury Village Cemetery, West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Hingham, Massachusetts, USA
- Locais de residência
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Educação
- Yale University (B.A. ∙ English ∙ 1955)
Linden Avenue Grade School
Shady Side Academy - Ocupações
- historian
biographer
television host - Relações
- Lawson, Dorie McCullough (daughter)
McCullough, Rosalee Barnes (wife)
McCulllough, Hax (brother)
Wilder, Thornton (teacher)
Warren, Robert Penn (teacher) - Organizações
- Skull and Bones (Yale University)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 2006) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1995)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2006)
Jefferson Lecture (2003)
Charles Frankel Prize (1995)
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
National Humanities Medal (1995) (mostrar todos 10)
Christopher Life Achievement Award (2008)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award (2012)
Pulitzer Prize (1993 for 'Truman')
Pulitzer Prize (2002 for 'Adams') - Agente
- Morton Janklow
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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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McCullough has often said that history is about people, in this case, John Roebling and his son Washington, the designer and chief engineer who got the bridge built. John Roebling had built suspension aqueducts and a railroad suspension bridge across the Niagara, and his family owned a company that produced high-quality wire. He was a hard-headed, meticulous man absolutely committed to his work. Just before construction on the Brooklyn project was about to begin, his toes were crushed at a ferryboat landing. He ignored the advice of his doctors and died from the resulting infection.
His son Washington was a civil engineer with a degree from a rigorous program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He built several bridges for the Union Army and commanded forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. When his father died in 1869, he took over the job of chief engineer and saw the bridge through to completion in 1883. Working in the underwater caissons building the foundations for the bridge’s towers, he suffered from the bends, a disease little understood at the time. He was invalided for the last several years of the project and saw the bridge only through a telescope at his home. He hired a doctor for the project who did groundbreaking work on decompression, but like his father, he ignored good medical advice. His wife, who shared his intelligence and character traits, acted for him when he was ill. She said, and he agreed, that she had more common sense than most engineers. Getting the bridge project through the corrupt, rough-and-tumble politics of Tweed-era New York was a major achievement for a man too ill to attend meetings and twist arms.… (mais)