There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
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Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.David McCullough
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough
It was a small battle, but it was very important, because we won for the first time, ... It had a huge psychological effect. . . . That was its importance. They sensed it was possible, possible - not guaranteed, nothing was guaranteed - that we might prevail.
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May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
David McCullough
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasurethe way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale.
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