David McCullough, legendary historian and TV voice-over talent, has passed away at the age of 89.  :\'(

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/08/david-mccullough-pulitzer-winning-historian-dies-aged-89

McCullough’s voice-over was a fixture on the PBS anthology The American Experience.

McCullough’s celebrations of the American past also led to the toughest criticism against him – that affection turned too easily to romanticization. His 2019 book The Pioneers was faulted for minimizing the atrocities committed against Native Americans, as 19th century settlers moved westward. In earlier works, he was accused of avoiding the harder truths about Truman, Adams and others and of placing storytelling above analysis.  Apparently his sin was that he was not a woke Social Justice Warrior.  ::)

Interviewed that same year by the Associated Press, McCullough responded to criticism that he was too soft by saying that “some people not only want their leaders to have feet of clay, but to be all clay”. Touché.  8)

We have a few of his books. I REALLY should read them but I have a lot of other books on my queue already.



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Here’s a link to his FindAGrave memorial page:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242442647/david-gaub-mccullough

Oddly he was not buried in his native Pittsburgh.  :-\\