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• David McCullough:

  With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going ove

• David McCullough:

  When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not v

• David McCullough:

  When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the

• David McCullough:

  To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To

• David McCullough:

  To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we

• David McCullough:

  There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to

• David McCullough:

  The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In wh

• David McCullough:

  The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what

• David McCullough:

  People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you

• David McCullough:

  My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can mak