McCullough, David G.

Truman by David G McCullough ( Book )
31 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 5,174 libraries worldwide
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 perhaps the most courageous president in our history.

John Adams by David G McCullough ( Book )
64 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 5,168 libraries worldwide
Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.

1776 by David G McCullough ( Book )
54 editions published between 2005 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 4,922 libraries worldwide
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.

The path between the seas : the creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 by David G McCullough ( Book )
20 editions published between 1977 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,591 libraries worldwide
Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.

Mornings on horseback by David G McCullough ( Book )
32 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 3,435 libraries worldwide
This biography of young Theodore Roosevelt covers his youth when he demanded a strenuous life despite his asthma, weak eyes, and patrician family.

The American heritage picture history of World War II by C. L Sulzberger ( Book )
15 editions published between 1966 and 1995 in 4 languages and held by 2,990 libraries worldwide
A comprehensive history of the war including 720 photographs and eyewitness accounts.

The Great Bridge by David G McCullough ( Book )
26 editions published between 1972 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,635 libraries worldwide
A detailed account of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge providing background on its engineering history as well as the political and social climate of the late-nineteenth century.

The Civil War ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1989 and 2004 in English and held by 2,627 libraries worldwide
An epic documentary bringing life to America's most destructive - and defining - conflict. Here is the saga of celebrated generals and the ordinary soldiers. A heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one again.

The Johnstown flood by David G McCullough ( Book )
34 editions published between 1968 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,523 libraries worldwide
A history of the 1889 flood that killed over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Based on letters, diaries, historical records, and interviews with survivors.

The greater journey : Americans in Paris by David G McCullough ( Book )
6 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 1,842 libraries worldwide
This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. Most had never left home, never experienced a different culture. None had any guarantee of success. That they achieved so much for themselves and their country profoundly altered American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America; future abolitionist Charles Sumner; staunch friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse (who saw something in France that gave him the idea for the telegraph); pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk; medical student Oliver Wendell Holmes; writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Henry James; Harriet Beecher Stowe, seeking escape from the notoriety Uncle Tom's Cabin had brought her; sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent; and American ambassador Elihu Washburne, who bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris and even more atrocious nightmare of the Commune. His vivid account in his diary of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris (drawn on here for the first time) is one readers will never forget. Nearly all of these Americans, whatever their troubles, spent many of the happiest days and nights of their lives in Paris.--From publisher description.