David McCullough - America’s Greatest Historian

“A keen eye for telling detail and a master storyteller’s instinct for human interest…vivid and brilliant.”

—Publishers Weekly, on John Adams

“McCullough writes with great literary skill and considerable historical sophistication.”

—Sunday Star-Ledger

“Absorbing and readable narrative…stirring history.”

—The New Yorker, on John Adams

“David McCullough is one of our very best popular historians.…His prose sings.”

—The Houston Chronicle

“In a vivid and richly detailed biography, the master historian… breathes vigorous life into the story of the nation’s second president… with meticulous research and flawless execution.”

—The Boston Herald, on John Adams

“McCullough combines the historian’s sober analysis with the novelist’s eye for character.”

—American Way

“Vivid…McCullough’s characteristically lovely, cantering prose is particularly suited to this sort of historical storytelling, and in these pages it seductively plays to all the reader’s senses…lucid and entertaining.”

—The Miami Herald, on John Adams

“[McCullough is] a master storyteller whose sentences flow with sturdy pacing and seamless grace.”

—New York Newsday

“Lucid and compelling…Written in a fluent narrative style that combines a novelist’s sense of drama with a scholar’s meticulous attention to the historical record…absorbing.”

—The International Herald Tribune, on John Adams

“Superlative…brings the most human and hard-driving of the founders to life before your eyes.”

—The Charleston Gazette, on John Adams

“McCullough has hit the historical jackpot.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review), on The Greater Journey

“A gorgeously rich, sparkling patchwork, eliciting stories from diaries and memoirs to create the human drama McCullough depicts so well.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review), on The Greater Journey

“Expect his latest book to ascend the best-seller lists and be given a place on the year-end best lists.”

—Booklist (starred review), on The Greater Journey