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c-span: why did you do this? guest: i did it because i am a reader of biography, and i whenever i m reading biography, i love the parts about family and i love the letters. and i had read a collection of a n. c. wyeth s letters andnd r theodore roosevelt s letters.c and when i had my own children,l it was a book that i wanted to read. thought, oh, i wonder what other great americans have written to their children, and i wanted to read those letters and ito couldn t find it. and at first, i wanted my fathe to do the book. fs my father is the historian david mccullough.myf mcd i thought that it was a good book for him to do because i wanted to read it. tha and he loved the idea.. but i realized after a while he thought it was a terrificizea e ea, but he wasn t going to do it. so i went to work on it myself. c-span: how did you do it? guest: i first began byt compiling a big list of great americans, hundreds of people. a great list of compiling a lit of hundreds ....