When I read that the Britis... by David McCullough, an American Historian

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“When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.”

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Name: David McCullough

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 7, 1933

Profession: Historian

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I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

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In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

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I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

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To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

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