The bestselling writer of
Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional women and men 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 may be timeless concerning the human condition.Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South The united states surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Frederic Remington; the atypical 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 The united states.
Different as they’re from each and every other, McCullough’s subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to one another, 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.
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