author: david mccullough

1776

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 ...

David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events

... list of recommended books on military matters, and in a letter to Adams of May 16, Knox expressed in the strongest terms his belief that it was time to declare American independence. Like Washington, like Greene —and like Adams—Knox ...

David McCullough Great Moments in History E-book Box Set: 1776, The Johnstown Flood, Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, The Course of Human Events

... list of recommended books on military matters, and in a letter to Adams of May 16, Knox expressed in the strongest terms his belief that it was time to declare American independence. Like Washington, like Greene —and like Adams—Knox ...

David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events

... list of recommended books on military matters, and in a letter to Adams of May 16, Knox expressed in the strongest terms his belief that it was time to declare American independence. Like Washington, like Greene—and like Adams—Knox ...

Seventeen Seventy-six

Chronicles the American Revolution during the year 1776, examining the leadership of George Washington and British commander William Howe and the experiences of American and British troops.

Seventeen Seventy-six

Draws on personal correspondence and period diaries to present a history of the American Revolution that ranges from the siege of Boston, to the American defeat at Brooklyn and retreat across New Jersey, to the American victory at Trenton.

Brave Companions: Portraits in History

... fly around the world , was lost in the Pacific near the Marianas . By August ... return to New York , furthermore , Lindbergh joined the isolationist America ... Flight to Arras , a book that had great effect in the United States , Saint ...

Johnstown Flood

The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough.

The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

... JOHNSTOWN FLOOD The Incredible Story Behind one of the most Devastating " Natural " Disasters Anterica Has Ever Known 0-671-20714-8 The Johnstown ... DAVID MCCULLOUGH'S ACCOUNT , YOU WILL.

The Wright Brothers

... Homecoming speech of, 232 letters by, 13–14, 18 as lover of books, 17–18 on Root, 121 traveling of, 11, 13 Wilbur as favorite child of, 14 worrying as habit of, 27 Wright, Milton (nephew), 9, 113, 176, 181 Wright, Netta, 9, 227 Wright ...

Truman

Drawing on newly discovered archival material and extensive interviews with Truman’s own family, friends, and Washington colleagues, McCullough tells the deeply moving story of the seemingly ordinary “man from Missouri” who was ...

You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements

David mccullough, Jr.'s now iconic high school commencement address was a tonic for children, parents, and educators alike.

You Are Not Special: … And Other Encouragements

A profound expansion of David McCullough, Jr.'s popular commencement speech—a call to arms against a prevailing, narrow, conception of success viewed by millions on YouTube—You Are (Not) Special is a love letter to students and parents ...

David McCullough American Presidents E-Book Box Set: John Adams, Mornings on Horseback, Truman, The Course of Human Events

... guillotine in Paris alone, while in the provinces the slaughter was even ... America for months, but accounts of the “pestilence” in Philadelphia filled the ... proof” was that the disease always vanished with the return of cold weather ...

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