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“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”
David McCullough (1933–2022) was a popular historian known for writing accessible American histories and biographies, which earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and the National Book Award. Many of his books were turned into film adaptations to bring history to broader audiences.
