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David McCullough has left us [1]

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Date: 2022-08-08

David McCullough, 1933-2022

This is probably going to be a short diary, but David McCullough has passed away at the age of 89.

McCullough was as probably as good of a biographer as you could find, with subjects ranging from Theodore Roosevelt (“Mornings on Horseback”), John Adams (“John Adams”), and Harry Truman (“Truman”) to his book on the Wright Brothers. He also wrote history, with subjects ranging from the Johnstown flood to the Brooklyn Bridge, from the American Revolution (“1776”) to 19th century Americans in Paris (“The Greater Journey”). He wrote in a highly readable style that also depicted his subjects in highly human terms. Among other honors, he won the Pulitzer Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and numerous other honors. He was a writer’s writer, with a prose style that was as good as it gets.

He was also a wonderful speaker with a mellifluous voice that somehow seemed to mirror the best of the America he tried to chronicle, having narrated Ken Burns’s “The Civil War” and the Jeff Bridges film “Seabiscuit”. For eleven glorious years, he hosted the PBS series “The American Experience”.

Here’s a C-Span interview he gave after the release of “The Greater Journey”:

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And from a 60 Minutes profile by the much missed Morley Safer, there’s a wonderful moment where he encounters Olivia DeHavilland, then in her nineties and attending a reception at the American embassy.

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And from “Seabiscuit”: the stock market crash of 1929 as narrated by David McCullough:

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RIP.

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