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David Mccullough's Reading List

The author, most recently, of “The Wright Brothers” originally planned to write fiction. “Again and again come vivid reminders that the truth often is not only stranger than fiction, but far more remarkable as a story.”

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By the Book: David Mccullough (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-05-28).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Painting as a Pastime
Winston Churchill · Buy on Amazon
"Winston Churchill's delightful "Painting as a Pastime""
Cover of A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember
Walter Lord · Buy on Amazon
"Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember," about the sinking of the Titanic, was the best book about a disaster I had ever read."
Cover of Life on a Little-Known Planet
Life on a Little-Known Planet
Howard Ensign Evans · Buy on Amazon
"A book I keep going back to for the sheer pleasure of the writing, as well as all it brings to life about a subject I might otherwise have taken no interest in whatever."
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White · Buy on Amazon
"I read it first nearly 50 years ago and still turn to it as an ever reliable aid-to-navigation."
Present at the Creation
Dean Acheson · Buy on Amazon
"a brilliant, superbly written account of the processes of decision making during the highly eventful Truman years. The book is, along with so much else, a great lesson in courage and loyalty."
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett · Buy on Amazon
"The delightful and very funny 18th-century fictional travel adventures"
Moon Tiger
Penelope Lively · Buy on Amazon
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Buy on Amazon
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy · Buy on Amazon
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History
Robert Sherwood · Buy on Amazon

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