BREAKING NEWS

David McCullough, the best-selling author and documentary narrator with a gift for exploring America's past, is dead at 89.

Monday, August 8, 2022 12:17 PM ET

Mr. McCullough won Pulitzer Prizes for two presidential biographies, "Truman" (1992) and "John Adams" (2001). He received National Book Awards for "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal" (1977) and "Mornings on Horseback" (1981), about the young Theodore Roosevelt and his family.

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