Quotes from David McCullough's books, and about them
1776 on Common Sense: “This he attributed in good part to the pamphlet Common Sense, published earlier in the year, the author of which, Thomas Paine, was as yet unknown.”
1776 on Henry V: “Graydon could never recall that night without thinking of the scene in Shakespeare's Henry V of the long night wait before the Battle of Agincourt”
1776 on Memoirs Concerning the Art of War: “the first of all qualities [of a general] is courage, he read in the Memoirs Concerning the Art of War by Marshal Maurice de Saxe”
Truman on Locksley Hall: “As a young man Harry copied down and saved the lines of this favorite poem, describing airships and wonders to come”
Truman on Autobiography: “"Harry liked Mark Twain and Franklin's Autobiography," read during long afternoons in the town library”
Truman on Don Quixote: “Listed among the books kept in Truman's small bookcase in his later-life reading corner”
Truman on David Copperfield: “"I have been reading David Copperfield," and its line is used as a chapter epigraph”
Truman on Commentaries on the Gallic War: “Harry built a wooden model of Caesar's bridge over the Rhine "as described in Caesar's Commentaries" during his Latin studies”