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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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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
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