David McCullough
David McCullough
David Gaub McCulloughis an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth7 July 1933
CityPittsburgh, United States
CountryUnited States of America
David McCullough quotes about
courage men self
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
self perfection leader
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.
effort preparation hours
The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.
teacher children real
Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.
honor sacred noble
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
men ideas leader
...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.
library democracy portal
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
growing-up moving book
There are innumerable writing problems in an extended work. One book took a little more than six years. You, the writer, change in six years. The life around you changes. Your family changes. They grow up. They move away. The world is changing. You're also learning more about the subject. By the time you're writing the last chapters of the book, you know much more than you did when you started at the beginning.
death men determined
They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.
writing love-is thinking
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
past firsts argument
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
war inspiration september-11
Since September 11, it seems to me that never in our lifetime, except possibly in the early stages of World War II, has it been clearer that we have as a source of strength, a source of direction, a source of inspiration - our story.
writing years research
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
mean sides hard
I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.