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(0)David McCullough
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Language
English
Description
"On a winter day in 1903, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, two brothers--bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio--changed history. But it would take the world some time to believe that the age of flight had begun, with the first powered machine carrying a pilot ... [David McCullough] draws on the extensive Wright family papers to profile not only the brothers but their sister, Katharine, without whom things might well have gone differently for them."--...
3) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of the second president, John Adams, describing the many conflicts--including international exploits--he faced during his long political career and exploring the love story that was his marriage to Abigail and the complexity of his friendship with Thomas Jefferson.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Description
The epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman , here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
This spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when little "Teedie" is ten, to 1886, when he returns from the west a "real life cowboy" to puck up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man, whole in body and spirit.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States — winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others — that reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
558 p., [48] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, ambitious to excel in their work. After risking the hazardous journey across the Atlantic, these Americans embarked on a greater journey in the City of Light. Most had never left home, never experienced...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
xv, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman who made the big war"; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; and David...
10) Huey Long
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. with b&w segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the life and times of Huey Long, the controversial Louisiana governor and senator. Includes interviews with people who remember Long, both favorably and not so favorably.
11) The Wright stuff
Publisher
WGBH Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the development of the airplane by the Wright brothers.
12) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 501 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life and career of statesman Adams, from the Boston Massacre to his son's presidency.