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....” Or you can be lucky in your biographers. It has taken almost two centuries, but Adams’s trumpeters are suddenly blaring loudly. As we write, David McCullough’s gushing valentine to the second president heads into its seventh month on the New York Times best...

...David Waldstreicher Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation . New York: Knopf, 2000. Joanne B. Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. David McCullough, John Adams . New York: Simon...

...; Arthur Schlesinger on Roosevelt; David McCullough on Truman. Thus, you get Joseph Lash (but no Blanche Cooke) on Eleanor Roosevelt, or Bob Thomas’s Walt Disney: An American Original, rather than Marc Eliot’s Walt Disney: Hollywood‘s Dark Prince. Given these centrist proclivities, we were...

... the countryside [and] have an occasional drug experience." Had David ABUSABLEPAST / 177 McCullough followed this advice, Will will conclude triumphantly, he would have had to retitle his Roosevelt biography, Mornings Fulling Off Horseback. But will such cheap...

... of the series' plaintive violin theme feels strangely pleasing. The narration by David McCullough and the numerous ac- tors who read from personal memoirs and letters blend together in a harmonious cadence. The narratois lilting voice carries a rather whim- sical tone. Faded photographs of ordinary men...

... they ultimately wielded. As Henry Luce put it in his famous article inaugurating the ”American Century the United States had become a world power ”blindly, unin- tentionally, accidentally and really in spite of ourselves.r12oAs David McCullough puts it in his musings on the modern presidency in TR...