Just saw on MSNBC – David McCullough advised Obama on his inauguration speech! That explains why he didn’t have time to write back, perhaps…
How fabulous – and again! Keith Olbermann just said that McCullough probably saw the final copy (as well as Doris Kearns Goodwin) I’m betting McCullough smiled at this bit:
Our Founding Fathers, faced [...]

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John Adams breaks records!

The HBO mini-series won 13 Emmys- that’s a record! I’m so happy that they won. All of the winners most definitely deserved the award.
Back to work!

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Time Capsule found in Abigail Adams Cairn

While taking apart the 114-year-old Abigail Adams Cairn on Tuesday, a masonry reconstruction team found a metal box inside the stone structure inside a brick-lined chamber, the newspaper reported.
Read more here. I anxiously await the opening of the time capsule.

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Ellis’s take on a “romantic and intellectual bond”

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Joseph J. Ellis will remain at Knopf for his next book, an untitled work on the romantic and intellectual bond between Abigail and John Adams. Ash Green bought world rights from John Taylor “Ike” Williams at Kneerim & Williams, and pub date is presently scheduled for spring 2010. Green, who announced [...]

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Chicago Tribune wins for McCullough and Wills

The Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime acheivement has been awarded to Massachusetts resident David McCullough. His popular works include John Adams, Truman, and The Great Bridge. Congratulations, Mr. McCullough! He certainly deserves it.
Also, the Heartland Prize (awarded by the Chicago Tribune) goes to Gary Wills for his book Head and Heart: American Christianities. I [...]

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Night Swimming

This is one book I’m dying to read- unfortunately, there’s a catch. It doesn’t come out until Summer 2009. Still, read this description.
Readers of PERFECT, LUSH, and BOUNCE were left hanging. The last we knew, Isabelle had just stopped making herself throw up, Sam was on her way to pick up her alcoholic dad from [...]

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