CSPAN2 Book TV August 4, 2012
c-span: why did you do this? >> guest: i did it because i am a reader of biography, and i -- whenever i'm reading biography, i love the parts about family and i love the letters. and i had read a collection of a n. c. wyeth's letters andnd r theodore roosevelt's letters.c and when i had my own children,l it was a book that i wanted to read. thought, oh, i wonder what other great americans have written to their children, and i wanted to read those letters and ito couldn't find it. and at first, i wanted my fathe to do the book. fs my father is the historian david mccullough.myf mcd i ...