I’m very annoyed when I hear people who ought to know better flannelling away about how it was a simpler time “back then.” There was no simpler time. But to suggest that this time is more fraught than others is not right. What surprises me is that people aren’t angrier. We have some grave problems, and I think the most serious are lamentable shifts in the fairness of our society. It is a very difficult, very dangerous time. HBR: Are we in a special or particularly fraught moment in our history? A turning point? , about Americans in Paris, and who says he is “fired up” to start his next book. (“If you think you are, you’ll get yourself in trouble.”) He is a storyteller first, who, at 79, is celebrating the success of his most recent book, The Greater Journey Still, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of popular and praised histories of Harry Truman, John Adams, and Theodore Roosevelt, among others, doesn’t consider himself an expert on anything. Americans now hear their history in David McCullough’s clarion voice, the one that narrated the acclaimed Civil Warĭocumentary series.
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