"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 pleasure”the way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."
--David McCullough
David McCullough was born in 1933 and raised in Pittsburgh, Penn. He attended Yale University, where he studied English, graduating with honors in English Literature in 1955.
McCullough wrote his first book, The Jonestown Flood, in 1968, where it met rave reviews. New York Times writer, John Leonard, said of McCullough, "We have no better social historian." It was after this book that he decided to become a full-time writer.
Since then, McCullough has written many popular works, including Mornings on Horseback (1981), Brave Companions (1992), Truman (1992), John Adams (2001), and 1776 (2005). He won the Pulitze Prize for a Biography or an Autobiography for Truman, and another Pulitzer Prize for John Adams in 2002.
McCullough will appear in Winston-Salem on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. at R.J. Reynolds Auditorium (301 Hawthorne Rd., Winston-Salem). He will be discussing his most recent book, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, and will follow it by a book signing.
The Greater Journey deals with nineteenth-century Americans, including James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel Moorse, who migrated to Paris in the 1800s and achieved importance in culture or society. Other people covered include Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in the United States and Elihu Washburne, the American ambassador to France during the Franco-Prussian War.
To get your tickets now, call The Stevens Center UNCSA box office (336) 721-1945 or go to their website here.
To read a review of 1776, click here.
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