David McCullough
Hardcover
Spanning more than 40 years of astonishing engineering feats, political intrigue, heroic success, and tragic failures, this epic chronicle of the construction of the Panama Canal is history writing at its best. 698 pages.
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David McCullough
According to The New York Times critic John Leonard, David McCullough “is incapable of writing a page of bad prose.” The author, narrator and lecturer has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, The National Book Award, and the Francis Parkman Prize. Further achievements include the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the New York Public Library’s Library Lion Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award that a United States citizen can have. His books include Truman, The Great Bridge, Brave Companions and John Adams.
