![]() ![]() His historical renditions were perfected in The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal (1977), 1776 (2005), and The Wright Brothers (2015). ![]() McCullough found national acclaim with his first notable publication The Jamestown Flood (1968), only to follow with benchmark-setting biographies on Theodore Roosevelt, President Truman, and John Adams. Rather, McCullough tells the story of some fifteen years earlier when Ohio was the western frontier, evoking the largely forgotten names of Manasseh Culter and General Rufus Putnam, who now reemerge from obscurity to the notoriety and reverence for which the great figures of our past have been duly monumentalized. William Clark during their celebrated 1804-1806 military expedition through the Louisiana Purchase into the Pacific Northwest. To be certain, this is not the territory explored by Capt. Highly readable and suitable for all ages and audiences, The Pioneers recounts the daring late-eighteenth century settling of the Northwest Territory, ceded by Britain to the United States following the War of Independence. Prolific author and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, David McCullough, has issued another historical masterpiece. ![]()
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