David McCullough war ein gefeierter Historiker, dessen Werk die amerikanische Geschichte für unzählige Leser lebendig werden ließ. Seine tiefgründigen Recherchen konzentrierten sich auf Schlüsselpersonen und transformative Momente der nationalen Vergangenheit. McCullough besaß die einzigartige Gabe, fesselnde Geschichten zu erzählen, die das menschliche Element innerhalb großer historischer Ereignisse beleuchteten und die Vergangenheit unmittelbar und relevant erscheinen ließen.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story: the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define the country.
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 as well as a guide to a truly fulfilling, happy life. Children today, says David McCullough—high school English teacher, father of four, and son and namesake of the famous historian—are being encouraged to sacrifice passionate engagement with life for specious notions of success. The intense pressure to excel discourages kids from taking chances, failing, and learning empathy and self-confidence from those failures. In You Are (Not) Special, McCullough elaborates on his now-famous speech exploring how, for what purpose, and for whose sake, we're raising our kids. With wry, affectionate humor, McCullough takes on hovering parents, ineffectual schools, professional college prep, electronic distractions, club sports, and generally the manifestations, and the applications and consequences of privilege. By acknowledging that the world is indifferent to them, McCullough takes pressure off of students to be extraordinary achievers and instead exhorts them to roll up their sleeves and do something useful with their advantages.
The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe what had happened: the age of flight had begun, with the first heavier-than-air, powered machine carrying a pilot. Who were these men and how was it that they achieved what they did? David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the surprising, profoundly human story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. In this thrilling book, McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence to tell the human side of the Wright Brothers' story, including the little-known contributions of their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them.
V roce 1903 se bratrům Wrightovým jako prvním na světě podařilo vzlétnout se strojem těžším než vzduch, a vykročit tak do nového věku letectví. Jejich dramatický příběh zachytil ve své napínavé knize David McCullough, dvojnásobný držitel Pulitzerovy ceny. Líčí, kdo vlastně byli Wilbur a Orville Wrightovi a jak ke svému objevu dospěli. Opírá se přitom o obrovské množství dokumentů, soukromých deníků, korespondence i alb, a vypráví tak hluboce lidský příběh o jednom velikém splněném snu.
Berühmt wurde David McCullough durch eine Rede vor Highschool-Absolventen, die mit dem provokanten Slogan „Ihr seid nichts Besonderes“ zum YouTube-Hit wurde. Der beliebte Englischlehrer hat damit einen Nerv getroffen. Denn viele haben das Gefühl, dass Kinder und Jugendliche heute viel zu sehr auf Erfolg getrimmt werden anstatt nach Erfüllung und Glück zu streben. McCullough verdeutlicht, dass wir den Heranwachsenden viel mehr helfen, wenn wir ihnen den Wert der Bildung nahebringen und Scheitern als Chance ansehen. Ein wichtiges Buch, das zum Denken anregt!
This book, first published in 1972 and later reprinted with a new preface by the author, offers insights into its themes and context. The updated preface provides a fresh perspective, enhancing the reader's understanding of the original content. The work reflects the author's evolution in thought and intention since its initial release, making it a valuable read for both new and returning audiences.
McCullough mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris.
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
From Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh, these are stories of people of great vision and daring whose achievements continue to inspire us today, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. The bestselling author of Truman and John Adams, David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman who made the big war”; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David Plowden, a present-day photographer of vanishing America. Different as they are from each other, McCullough’s subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew and their very uncommon lives.
