Good evening, every saturday night throughout the summer booktv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of our twist on binge watching. Tonights featured author s historian David Mccullough the author of a dozen books including bestselling histories on the american revolution, the invention of manned spaceflight the settlement of the Northwest Territory and the creation of the brooklyn bridge. He is a two time winner both Pulitzer Prize and National Book award and appeared on booktv and cspan over 75 times. Coming up over the next several hours we will show you some of those programs. First up in 1992 he appeared on cspans book not programmed to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and hope to change the view of the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. David mccullough, and your last chapter called citizen Truman Truman had held to the idea of the mythical roman heroes cincinnatus. Whats that
Serve on the committee that chose truman for the award of biography 1993 and the ceremonies i first got to meet him briefly and come to admire his work and i know all of you do as well the lecture and historian the narrator of distinguished most historical series a recipient of the National Book foundation distinguished contribution and twice received the National Book award the most recent book is john adams. Other books include the johnstown flood warnings on horseback and truman so on behalf of laura bush and the library of congress and all readers everywhere please welcome david mccullough. [applause] thank you. What a warm welcome and thank you for your introduction. Im thrilled to be here and to take part and honored to take part with this historic and marvelous event. What a thrilling day this is to see thousands of people here on capitol hill the american acropolis right at the heart of the greatest libraries of the world. And to see it all with thousands of people out there to
Bathroom after the phone call he made with 911, it sounded as if he was communicating with other people who were involved with it. He made a statement that the police, if the police come in, theyre going to attack, because its okay, because we got the snipers outside. Whoever he spoke to, some Police Officers, maybe he was just deranged or talking to himself. But i honestly feel like, i dont think he was able to pull that off all by himself, that one man all by himself. And because he said he had snipers outside. And the first shots that you heard, there was so many shots going off. Thats why it sounded like it was part of the music. Thats why i couldnt believe it was gunshots happening. He actually started backing into the bathroom stall itself when the police busted in, that myself, and my friends was inside of. And i could see his foot scooting back as he heard the Police Outside and the last thing that i heard before the police said, move away from the walls. He said, hey, you, to
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Attraction of subject to biography which ive never been able to explain, but it happens. After i finished my last book, which was the third of a trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt i was looking around for another subject. My agent said to me, what about edison . About time somebody about did a book on him. I said i dont think i want to do another enormous biography, so i said no to the idea. But a few months later, mysterious how these things happen, i was at an airport in florida, fort myers, which is near where edison used to have his winter plantation, next to henry fords and i was running to catch a plane and came across this airport lobby display of a huge cutout, lifesize cutout of thomas edison. Thun of these photographic silhouettes. I literally barged into it. It was posed next to his leckedfied modelt that henry ford had given him. So here am i looking into Thomas Edisons eyes and i suddenly became overwhelmed with curiosity. This guy is fascinating, i have to write about him and