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Today comes news of the death of historian David McCullough yesterday at the age of 89. The New York Times obituary by Daniel Lewis is here. McCullough was a popular historian who was an intense researcher with an incredible gift for narrative. I think he loved narrative history and America in roughly equal measure. The two loves made him an immensely popular popular historian -- a popular historian of quality.

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and...

His books on Presidents Adams and Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time

David McCullough, best-selling author and renowned historian who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of presidents John Adams and Harry Truman, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on

Best-selling writer and award-winning American historian David McCullough died at the age of 89 on Sunday.

He's known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, and for narrating famous documentaries like Ken Burns’ “The Civil War.”

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.

He's known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, and for narrating famous documentaries like Ken Burns’ “The Civil War.”

He's known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams, and for narrating famous documentaries like Ken Burns’ “The Civil War.”

McCullough died Sunday in Hingham, Massachusetts, according to his publisher, Simon & Schuster. He died less than two months after his beloved wife, Rosalee.