· Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of /5(4). · Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of Brand: Simon Schuster. Graced by David McCullough's remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are /5(K).
Awesome writing by America's narrative nonfiction master, David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize - winning author of John Adams and Truman and recent bestseller, the Wright Brothers (see my review of 2/17/) relates the horrible details of America's worst disaster of its time, the Johnstown Flood. Graced by David McCullough's remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing portrait of life in 19th-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. This is a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Octo Octo Becky They claim when doing your genealogy you should do your best to learn about the history of the area, and that was one of my primary reasons to read "The Johnstown Flood" by David McCullough, his very first book.
Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Octo Octo Becky They claim when doing your genealogy you should do your best to learn about the history of the area, and that was one of my primary reasons to read “The Johnstown Flood” by David McCullough, his very first book. Those who tell the Flood story always have a copy of David G. McCullough's. The Johnstown Flood within reach. McCullough was reared in Pittsburgh and chose the Flood as his first book after being unable to find a book on the subject to quench his curiosity. A first "draft" of the book appeared in. American Heritage magazine in
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