David McCullough, known to millions as an award-winning, best-selling author and an appealing television host and narrator with a rare gift for recreating the great events and characters of America’s past has died.
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He died on Sunday, August 7, 2022, at his home in Hingham, Mass. He was 89.
McCullough wrote a lot of captivating and intriguing boooks. However, according to bookscrolling.com, his best books are;
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- Truman
- The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
- The Wright Brothers
- The Great Bridge
- John Adams
- The Path Between the Seas
- The Johnstown Flood
- 1776
- Mornings on Horseback
Mr. McCullough won Pulitzer Prizes for two presidential biographies, “Truman” (1992) and “John Adams” (2001).
He received National Book Awards for “The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal” (1977) and “Mornings on Horseback” (1981), about the young Theodore Roosevelt and his family.
McCullough’s two Pulitzer Prize–winning books, Truman and John Adams, have been adapted by HBO into a TV film and a miniseries, respectively.


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