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1776 : America and Britain at Warby David McCulloughISBN 0141021713 (0-14-102171-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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American Childhoods: An Anthologyby David McCulloughISBN 0316555444 (0-316-55544-4)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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An American Chronology: The Photographs of David Plowdenby David McCulloughISBN 0670117196 (0-670-11719-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The American Heritage Picture History of World War IIby C. L. Sulzberger, David McCulloughISBN 0517105233 (0-517-10523-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Heritage Picture History of World War II'Book summary:The drama and tragedy of the Second World War is revealed in hundreds of great photos (many never before published) and a superb narrative by a Pulitze Prize-winning journalist. 720 illustrations. 8 3/4 x 10 3/4. Wings [via]
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Brave Companionsby C. L. Sulzberger, David McCulloughISBN 0671792768 (0-671-79276-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave Companions'Book summary:The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition.
Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman who made the big war"; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a present-day photographer of vanishing America.
Different as they are from each other, McCullough's subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives. [via]
Brooklyn, and How It Got That Wayby David McCulloughISBN 0385274270 (0-385-27427-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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City Sleuths and Tough Guysby David McCulloughISBN 0395513189 (0-395-51318-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridgeby David McCulloughISBN 0380007533 (0-380-00753-3)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridgeby David McCulloughISBN 067145711X (0-671-45711-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge'Book summary:In the 19th century, the Brooklyn Bridge was viewed as the greatest engineering feat of mankind. The Roeblings--father and son--toiled for decades, fighting competitors, corrupt politicians, and the laws of nature to fabricate a bridge which, after 100 years, still provides one of the major avenues of access to one of the world's busiest cities--as compared to many bridges built at the same time which collapsed within decades or even years. It is refreshing to read such a magnificent story of real architecture and engineering in an era where these words refer to tiny bits and bytes that inspire awe only in their abstract consequences, and not in their tangible physical magnificence. [via]
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Johnstown Floodby David McCulloughISBN 0671207148 (0-671-20714-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Landscape of War: Recently Discovered Civil War Photographsby Medford Historical Society Staff, Brian C. Pohanka, David McCullough , Will Stapp, Constance SullivanISBN 0395476925 (0-395-47692-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Mornings on Horsebackby Medford Historical Society Staff, Brian C. Pohanka, David McCullough , Will Stapp, Constance SullivanISBN 0671447548 (0-671-44754-8)
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Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it is the story of a remarkable little boy -- seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma -- and his struggle to manhood.
His father -- the first Theodore Roosevelt, "Greatheart," -- is a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. His mother -- Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt -- is a Southerner and celebrated beauty.
Mornings on Horseback spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886 when he returns from the West a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
This is a tale about family love and family loyalty...about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons...about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884...about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and "blessed" mornings on horseback at Oyster Bay or beneath the limitless skies of the Badlands. [via]
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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914by Medford Historical Society Staff, Brian C. Pohanka, David McCullough , Will Stapp, Constance SullivanISBN 0671244094 (0-671-24409-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914'Book summary:On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.
All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Point No-Pointby David McCulloughISBN 014015938X (0-14-015938-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Childrenby Dorie McCullough Lawson, David McCulloughISBN 038550330X (0-385-50330-X)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of historys most admired figures. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons in life and love, character and compassion that will surprise and enlighten.
Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. DuBois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesnt stop working; Woody Guthrie from a New Jersey asylum to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; sixty-five-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilders train of thought about her pioneer childhood; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son.
With letters that span more than three centuries of American history, Posterity is a fascinating glimpse into the thoughts, wisdom, and family lives of those whose public accomplishments have touched us all. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers.More editions of Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children:
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Think on Deathby David McCulloughISBN 0140139427 (0-14-013942-7)
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Trumanby David McCulloughISBN 0671456547 (0-671-45654-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Iby David McCulloughISBN 0609809075 (0-609-80907-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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This is the real story of how Ireland came to be, told through eyewitness accounts from a thousand years of struggle, brought together for the first time in one volume. Its a surprisingly immediate and stunning portrait of an all-but-forgotten time that forged the Ireland of today. [via]More editions of Wars of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I:
The Waters of Kronosby David McCulloughISBN 027102240X (0-271-02240-X)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Wendell Minor: Art for the Written Word Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Artby David McCulloughISBN 0151956146 (0-15-195614-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Wendell Minor: Twenty-Five Years of Book Cover Artby Wendell Minor, Florence F. Minor, David McCulloughISBN 0156002124 (0-15-600212-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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What If?by Wendell Minor, Florence F. Minor, David McCulloughISBN 0425176428 (0-425-17642-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Beenby Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan, David McCullough , James M. McPhersonISBN 0399145761 (0-399-14576-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'World's Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been'Book summary:Counterfactuals--what-if scenarios--fueled countless bull sessions in smoke-filled dorm rooms in the 1960s. What if Sitting Bull had had a machine gun at Little Big Horn? What if Attila the Hun had had a time machine? What if Columbus had landed in India after all? Some of those dorm-room speculators grew up to be historians, and their generation (along with a few younger and older scholars) makes a strong showing in this anthology of essays, in which the what-ifs are substantially more plausible. What if Hitler had not attacked Russia when he did? He might have moved into the Middle East and secured the oil supplies the Third Reich so badly needed, helping it retain its power in Europe. What if D-Day had been a failure? The Soviet Union might have controlled all of Europe. What if Sennacherib had pressed the siege of Jerusalem in 701 B.C.? Then the nascent, monotheistic Jewish religion might never have taken hold among the people of Judah--and the daughter religions of Christianity and Islam would never have been born.
So suggest some of the many first-rate contributors to this collection, which grew from a special issue of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. One of them is classicist Josiah Ober, who suggests that if Alexander the Great had died at the age of 21 instead of 32, Greece would have been swallowed up by Persia and Rome, and the modern Western world would have a much different sensibility--and probably little idea of democratic government. Still other contributors are Stephen E. Ambrose, Caleb Carr, John Keegan, David McCullough, and James McPherson, who examine a range of scenarios populated by dozens of historical figures, including Sir Walter Raleigh, Chiang Kai-shek, Robert E. Lee, Benito Mussolini, and Themistocles. The result is a fascinating exercise in historical speculation, one that emphasizes the importance of accident and of roads not taken in the evolution of human societies across time. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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