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David McCullough (1933–2022)

Autor(a) de John Adams

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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

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Obras por David McCullough

John Adams (2001) 13,363 exemplares
1776 (2005) 12,797 exemplares
Truman (1992) 5,724 exemplares
The Wright Brothers (2015) 3,133 exemplares
The Johnstown Flood (1968) 2,199 exemplares
1776: The Illustrated Edition (2007) 765 exemplares
John Adams [2008 TV mini series] (2008) — Screenwriter — 175 exemplares
The Course of Human Events (2004) 110 exemplares
1776 {abridged audiobook} (2005) 30 exemplares
John Adams (Reader's Companion) (2003) 13 exemplares
Truman I (1992) 9 exemplares
Collecting History (2009) 8 exemplares
Truman II (1992) 7 exemplares
American History 7 exemplares
Faces 2 exemplares
Short Stories 1 exemplar
Adams (John Adams) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Seabiscuit [2003 film] (2003) — Narrador — 464 exemplares
Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (2008) — Introdução — 337 exemplares
The Civil War [1990 TV series] (1990) — Narrador — 246 exemplares
The National Archives of the United States (1984) — Introdução — 179 exemplares
Character Above All: Ten Presidents from FDR to George Bush (1996) — Contribuidor — 103 exemplares
Affection and Trust (2010) — Introdução — 70 exemplares
Influenza 1918: The Worst Epidemic in America's History (1999) — Prefácio — 60 exemplares
Reader's Digest Condensed Books 1968 v04 (1968) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
Power and the Presidency (1999) 38 exemplares
Thomas Mellon and his times (1885) — Prefácio, algumas edições27 exemplares
Truman [1995 TV movie] (1995) — Original book — 25 exemplares
Reagan: An American Story (1998) — Prefácio — 21 exemplares
American Experience: The Donner Party [1992 TV episode] (1992) — Narrador — 17 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
The Congress [1988 TV episode] (1996) — Narrador — 13 exemplares
American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt [2000 TV episode] (2009) — Narrador — 10 exemplares
Huey Long [1985 TV episode] (2004) — Narrador — 9 exemplares
American Experience: America 1900 [1998 TV episode] (1998) — Narrador — 7 exemplares
NOVA: A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama [1987 TV episode] (2004) — Narrador — 7 exemplares
American Experience: LBJ [1991 TV episode] (1991) — Narrador — 7 exemplares
An American Chronology: The Photographs of David Plowden (1982) — Introdução — 7 exemplares
Degenerate Art [1993 TV movie] (1993) — Narrador — 6 exemplares
American Experience: The Presidents Collection (1997) — Narrador — 5 exemplares
American Experience: FDR [1994 TV episode] (2009) — Narrador — 4 exemplares
American Experience: The Crash of 1929 [1990 TV episode] (2009) — Narrador — 4 exemplares
American Experience: The Wright Stuff [1996 TV episode] (2003) — Narrador — 4 exemplares
American Experience: The Great War 1918 [1989 TV episode] (1989) — Narrador — 3 exemplares
American Experience: Ike [1993 TV episode] (2000) — Narrador — 2 exemplares
The Great Air Race of 1924 [1989 film] — Narrador — 1 exemplar
The Wizard of Photography: George Eastman (2000) — 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

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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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The Path Between the Seas group read em 2013 Category Challenge (Novembro 2013)

Críticas

David McCullough is a writer with the rare ability to propel me through heavy tomes on subjects I know little about. I have never been to Brooklyn, but McCullough engaged me in the drama of the construction of the iconic bridge across the East River. The Great Bridge is his second book. It solidified his reputation as a writer and researcher after his impressive start writing about the Johnstown flood.
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.
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Tom-e | 57 outras críticas | Nov 25, 2023 |
Incredible the amount of detail author David McCullough is able to muster to flesh out this very compelling story of the struggle of 1776. I learned a lot, and developed a much deeper appreciation for some of the key battles and skirmishes of the American Revolution. From a literary perspective, the story wanes between pages of slightly too much detail to moments of sheer tension and enlightenment. McCullough tells a very human story, focusing on the known facts surrounding key characters, like Nathanael Greene, Charles Lee, Henry Clinton, Charles Cornwallis, William Howe, and George Washington. Highly recommend it for anyone interested in the period.… (mais)
 
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nakedspine | 241 outras críticas | Nov 16, 2023 |
David McCullough, who died last year, was one of America’s best writers on historical subjects. He studied English and art at Yale, went to work for the U.S. Information Agency during the Kennedy administration, and discovered his true calling when he saw a Library of Congress display of photographs of the devastation caused by the 1889 collapse of a reservoir dam above a Pennsylvania coal mining town. The reservoir was a private fishing resort owned by the titans of the steel industry in Pittsburgh, 65 miles away. The flood wiped out several closely packed communities and killed more than 2,000 people.
When McCullough could not find a book that told him what he wanted to know about the event, he decided to write the book he wanted to read. He faced a significant problem sifting out the “wild exaggerations and outright nonsense” of newspaper accounts that many people of the time found credible. He sifted through photographs, letters, diaries, and interviews with survivors.
The result reads like the best new journalism, letting people tell their stories with enough factual background to make the events clear and vivid. For many, the flood was experienced first as a sound in the dark: “It began as a deep, steady rumble, they would say; then it grew louder and louder until it became an avalanche of sound, ‘a roar like thunder.’” One man described it memorably as “just like a lot of horses grinding oats.”
McCullough’s conclusions are few but telling. The dam builders were not the experts they pretended to be, and the people of Johnstown mistakenly assumed that “the people who were responsible for their safety were behaving responsibly.” These are lessons we still need to learn.
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Tom-e | 68 outras críticas | Nov 13, 2023 |
If you are looking for a one volume biography of one of the most important and influential of our founding fathers, you will be hard pressed to find one better than this. David McCullough not only makes John Adams approachable but he makes those that were intimate family and friends approachable as well.
 
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everettroberts | 191 outras críticas | Oct 20, 2023 |

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