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What David McCullough Can Teach Us

A great historian can make us more faithful Christians.

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Samuel D. James
Aug 09, 2022
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David McCullough has passed away. He was and is one of the greatest history writers of his era. One Christmas as a teenager I received a copy of 1776. My first read-through remains one of the most captivating reading experiences of my entire life. I was entranced: absorbed wholly in McCullough’s poetic, page-turning style, but also deeply affected by th…

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