David McCullough
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Sep 11, 2026
Ryan HolidayHOST
That's the thing you have to remember about history is that in the moment, it's just a moment.
Ryan HolidayHOST
As it's unfolding, nobody knows where it's gonna go, and, and as David McCullough says, it could always go differently.
Ryan HolidayHOST
So today's gonna be kind of a special episode.
Ryan HolidayHOST
We're gonna hear from Chief Joseph Pfeifer, who was the first FDNY chief to arrive at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
CorrineHOST
The Union soldiers awaited them at the famous stone fence, and as they saw the Confederates struggle through in their doomed charge, the Union soldiers made a sound.
CorrineHOST
And, oh, a gigantic gasp of unbelief, as David McCullough put it in Ken Burns' The Civil War.
CorrineHOST
It was a sound of pity and awe, a sound that said, this isn't only history, it is human tragedy.
CorrineHOST
The Union soldiers found themselves unable to reenact defeating them.
JamieHOST
So what is this referring to? MTV? iPhones? It's actually describing bicycles.
JamieHOST
This comes from the Wright Brothers biography by David McCullough, who discusses that in the late 1800s, some considered bicycles to be the downfall of youth.
JamieHOST
Quote, bicycles were proclaimed morally hazardous.
JamieHOST
Until now, children and youth were unable to stray very far from home on foot.
Bob SturmHOST
Brooklyn Bridge is tough to beat, though, Corby, because the history.
Bob SturmHOST
Like, the David McCullough book about the Brooklyn Bridge kind of unpacks how New York City worked before the bridge changed everything.
Bob SturmHOST
Such as, when the water freezes, you couldn't get from Brooklyn to Manhattan for...
Bob SturmHOST
Weeks at a time because the ferries can't run? A month and a half.
CorrineHOST
The Union soldiers awaited them at the famous stone fence, and as they saw the Confederates struggle through in their doomed charge, the Union soldiers made a sound.
CorrineHOST
And, oh, a gigantic gasp of unbelief, as David McCullough put it in Ken Burns' The Civil War.
CorrineHOST
It was a sound of pity and awe, a sound that said, this isn't only history, it is human tragedy.
CorrineHOST
The Union soldiers found themselves unable to reenact defeating them.
Tim MediraHOST
Oh, goodness.
Tim MediraHOST
I have been reading, along with my wife, 1776, uh, David McCullough's book.
Mike SchooleyHOST
Okay.
Tim MediraHOST
It's been a lot of fun.
Jim StevensonGUEST
And that really fascinated me.
Jim StevensonGUEST
I recently read a book by David McCullough, and it was called The Greatest Journey.
Jim StevensonGUEST
And it was about Americans from about 1830 to about 1900 that all went to Paris.
Jim StevensonGUEST
Paris was the epicenter of culture and learning in that time period.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
After receiving the grant, recipients are given a list of a few dozen books from which to choose their Big Read selections.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
The Marion Library selected 1776, a nonfiction book published in 2005 by historian David McCullough.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
In the book, McCullough recounts the year of the nation's founding from the perspective of both British and American troops.
Tom GettaNARRATOR
McCullough, who died in 2022, really makes it very readable, Gerth said.
Lee HabibHOST
End quote.
Lee HabibHOST
One of our great historians, the late David McCullough, agreed, quote, this isn't ancestor worship.
Lee HabibHOST
This is reality.
Lee HabibHOST
This is the truth.
David RubensteinHOST
decided to write separate books.
David RubensteinHOST
But there's a very good story, maybe you've heard, maybe our audience hasn't heard, about David McCullough.
David RubensteinHOST
David McCullough was a great biographer, and he used to write in this style.
David RubensteinHOST
He would write a paragraph or two, and then his wife, Rosalie, would read it.
David RubensteinHOST
And then she would read it longhand, read it loud, so that he could see not only whether it read well, but it sounded well.
David RubensteinHOST
And he said, God damn it, it's okay.
David RubensteinHOST
Let's just keep going.
David RubensteinHOST
The book came out, it won the Pulitzer Prize, and a reviewer, Gore Vidal, wrote in the review, this is a spectacular book, but how could David McCullough have written this one sentence that makes no sense? So sometimes, best to listen to your wife.
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