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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Guide History Navigation Perilous Times Way Who Why

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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Advantage Education Father Had Humanities Just Lucky Mother Stars Thank

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I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Hard Out Rewriting Trying Very Weed Work Writing

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You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Democracy Full History Know Our Participant You

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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Alive Art Being Civic Enlargement Experience History Just Literature Me Music Ought Our Part Pleasure Responsibility Source Way

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A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Amnesia Better Forgets Function Individual Nation Past Than

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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.

~David Mccullough

Topics: About Also America Army Book Century Eighteenth Focus Low Next Point Revolution Set States United United States United States Of America War Washington Year

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I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Character Drawn Evolve Out Particularly Protagonist Stories

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I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Hard Love Mean Sides Work I Love

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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

Topics: Book Embarked Every Expert Felt Journey Never New Project Subject

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: July 7th, 1933

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