David McCullough (1933-2022) twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other acclaimed books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, Brave Companions, 1776, The Greater Journey, The American Spirit, The Wright Brothers, and The Pioneers. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Visit DavidMcCullough.com.
Newsweek McCullough is a storyteller with the capacity to steer
readers through political, financial, and engineering intricacies
without fatigue or muddle. This is grand-scale, expert work.
The New York Daily News In the hands of McCullough, the digging of
the great ditch becomes a kind of peacetime epic...The book will
absorb you...You won't want to put it down once you've started
reading it.
The Washington Post Book World Solid, entertainingly written and
fair-minded...McCullough unravels the complicated and sometimes
deliberately obscured story that lies behind the Panama Canal.
The Washington Star David McCullough's history of this
extraordinary construction job between the Atlantic and Pacific is
everything history ought to be. It is dramatic, accurate...and
altogether gripping.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times A chunk of history
full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skullduggery.
Newsweek McCullough is a storyteller with the capacity to
steer readers through political, financial, and engineering
intricacies without fatigue or muddle. This is grand-scale, expert
work.
The New York Daily News In the hands of McCullough, the
digging of the great ditch becomes a kind of peacetime epic...The
book will absorb you...You won't want to put it down once you've
started reading it.
The Washington Post Book World Solid, entertainingly written
and fair-minded...McCullough unravels the complicated and sometimes
deliberately obscured story that lies behind the Panama Canal.
The Washington Star David McCullough's history of this
extraordinary construction job between the Atlantic and Pacific is
everything history ought to be. It is dramatic, accurate...and
altogether gripping.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times A chunk of
history full of giant-sized characters and rich in political
skullduggery.
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