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"[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail."

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About David McCullough

David McCullough was an American historian and biographer known for narrative histories such as Truman and John Adams. He was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.

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