Power Line (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
If interest in the American Revolution abated, it seems to have undergone a revival in recent years. Witness, for example, the first-rate best sellers written by David McCullough on John Adams and on the revolution's seminal year . The popularity of these books is in part a tribute to McCullough's craftsmanship, but their popularity also testifies to the intensity of interest in the subject. Reflecting...
Dealhack (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Charity has agreed to work with professional dealers in valuing rare stock Oxfam has attempted to patch up its differences with secondhand booksellers after they accused the charity of driving them out of business in the Guardian this August. The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association, which represents 600 secondhand booksellers, had said that Oxfam's voluntary staff, donated stock and business-rate...
Miami Student (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
For David McCullough, history is more than a subject in school. It is an ongoing story and a source for invaluable lessons. McCullough, historian and author, spoke Monday night in Millett Hall about the importance of history. McCullough, author of 1776 and John Adams and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, spoke to students, faculty, staff and community members in his first visit to Miami University.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author David McCullough speaks on "Leadership and the History You Don't Know," 7:30 p.m. today, Millett Hall, Miami University, Oxford. It's free. 513-529-3200 for information.
Miami Student (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, David McCullough will be speaking as part of Miami University's Jack R. Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 at Millett Hall. McCullough attended Yale University as an undergraduate. After graduating he went on to write for magazines such as Sports Illustrated and American Heritage, eventually writing his first novel, The Johnstown Flood.
bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Memoirs can be wonderful. To hear the writing voice of someone you know for something else, acting or politics, and to see what it is they choose to show of themselves can be very revealing. Alec Guiness has written a couple of wonderful volumes about himself, as has writer...
CAFFEINATED POLITICS (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
October 31, 1992, was a cold and blustery day across Wisconsin. Light snow flurries swirled through the air as many thousands stood for hours at the old train depot in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The presidential campaign that year was winding down, and even though President Bush was campaigning with David McCullough’s latest book “Truman ” in his hand while reminding [...]
Ben Casnocha: The Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry Truman is one of the best books I've read in 2009. At over 1,000 pages, it is a complete examination of Harry Truman's life and presidency, including blow-by-blow accounts of the decision to...
Valley News Dispatch (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Mary "Kitty" Vagley had just finished the book "John Adams" by renowned author David McCullough when the phone rang.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
After the revolution, the to American statesmen ventured into the mother countryside, and liked what they saw. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were American patriots, co-framers of the Declaration of Independence, our second and third presidents. Sometimes friends, sometimes rivals, they lived in tandem through our nation's difficult birth: Jefferson, the sophisticated Virginia planter, Adams, the...
London Reconnections (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Would you buy a used bridge over troubled waters from this man? Residents of south and east London are warned to be on their guard against this man. On Monday 12th October, he was part of a gang that audaciously set out to sell key London transport assets, over the heads of unsuspecting locals. Scams of this kind are not unknown. Victor Lustig was a famous fraudster who sold Gustav Eiffel’s...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Singer Natalie Cole and historian David McCullough will be the guests at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's annual Christmas concerts. Free tickets are available for four events: a dress rehearsal Dec.
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
THE BIG BURN By Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 352 pages. Not since David McCullough's 1968 "The Johnstown Flood" grabbed readers and hurled them down the narrow Conemaugh Valley to certain doom can I remember a natural-disaster yarn that yanks one by the back of the neck face to face with horror the way Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn" brings the great Western fire of...
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Stacy Conradt writes about ten authors and their typewriters, at Mental Floss. Some we’ve seen here at the Bathtub, some we haven’t: Steinbeck, Hemingway, Kerouac, David Sedaris, Mark Twain, John Updike, George Orwell, Hunter S. Thompson, David McCullough, P. J. O’Rourke. Posted in Banned Books, Books, Literature, Technology, Typewriters Tagged: Authors, Books, Literature, Technology,...
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