![]() McCullough seemed undaunted by his topics they were fun for him and he made the subjects enchanting for readers. He wrote about epic figures, from Theodore Roosevelt to the Wright Brothers. The shaping of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal. The subjects McCullough tackled were massive. McCullough died Sunday at his home in Hingham, Mass., according to his publishers Simon and Schuster. ![]() He was a bravura historian and public intellectual whose biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams won Pulitzer Prizes, and whose best-selling stories of American accomplishment were complemented by his work as a public television host and narrator for popular movies and documentaries, including Ken Burns' The Civil War. He wrote extensively and compellingly about American history and won two Pulitzer Prizes.ĭavid McCullough has died. Historian David McCullough, shown here in 2013, has died at 89. ![]()
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