Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: adams, john
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2002-09-03
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0743223136
ISBN-13: 9780743223133

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.This is history on a grand scale -- a

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: companions, brave
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1992-11-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0671792768
ISBN-13: 9780671792763

David McCullough, author of Truman, has collected his favorite pieces -- 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, Antoi

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: adams, john
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2008-01-29
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 141657588X
ISBN-13: 9781416575887

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American history. This is history on a grand sca

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: truman
Number of Pages: 1120
Published: 1993-06-14
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0671869205
ISBN-13: 9780671869205

The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson -- and dramatic events. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man -- a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined -- but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries,

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: flood, johnstown
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1987-01-15
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0671207148
ISBN-13: 9780671207144

David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series "Smithsonian World?’ The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough’s first book, was praised by Time magazine as a "meticulously researched, vivid account of one of the most stunning disasters in U.S. history." At the end of the last century, Johnstown,.Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hard-working families striving for a piece of the nationR

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords:
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-06-27
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0743226720
ISBN-13: 9780743226721

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper. Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size,

Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: adams, john
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2001-05-22
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0684813637
ISBN-13: 9780684813639

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving l