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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
David McCullough
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David McCullough
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 7
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Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
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To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
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It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.
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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.
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