Another death today, David McCullough
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In The Atlantic (I have not yet read this)
History Is Human’: Remembering David McCullough
With the death this week of David McCullough, we lost an author who understood how to find the stories that made history feel relevant and real.
AUGUST 10, 2022
Fred R. Conrad / New York Times / Redux
AUGUST 10, 2022, 12:17 PM ET
Two years ago, I happened to come across an interview with David McCullough in the Vineyard Gazette, his hometown newspaper. I still have it, printed out and placed in a folder in my desk drawer. I kept it because, as was so often the case, McCullough had said something that I wanted to remember. “There are any number of ways to begin a book,” he had told the interviewer while they sat on the back porch of his house on Martha’s Vineyard. “I like to begin with somebody on the move.”
The first book I read by McCullough was John Adams, one of his many masterworks that begins with men on the move. “In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter,” he wrote, “two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north.” For me, that was all it took. I wanted to know who these men were, where they were going, what was going to happen next. I did not care that the book was nearly 800 pages long. I was hooked.
For writers of nonfiction, there are subjects, and then there … Continued at link
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also, from earlier this week, a screen capture (paywall)
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