... Vermont alone had been built by a king or potentate, it would be one of the wonders of the world." Biographer David McCullough writes that President John Adams described his physical activities in retirement as beginning at five or six in the ...

... protect the key Civil War site. A who's who of historians including filmmaker Ken Burns and Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough sent a letter last month to H. Lee Scott, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., urging the company to ...

... see it. Adams, as Brummett pointed out, is the subject of a wonderfully entertaining HBO mini-series based on David McCullough's biography of the second president. If I might make my own cable television comparison: Beebe is less Adams ...

... me a while, but I have just finished reading one of the most fantastic books I have ever read "John Adams" by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book contains 650 pages plus another 100 pages of source notes, bibliographical ...

... Kate Jacobs (Berkley) 9. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press) 10. "John Adams" by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) 11. "Marley & Me" by John Grogan (Harper Paperbacks) 12. "Eat This Not That!" by David ...

... Obama (Three Rivers Press) 9. "The Friday Night Knitting Club" by Kate Jacobs (Berkley) 10. "John Adams" by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster) 11. "Marley & Me" by John Grogan (Harper Paperbacks) 12. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled ...

... Perkins is 95. Musician-conductor Doc Severinsen is 81. Country singer Charlie Louvin is 81. Historian-author David McCullough is 75. Rock star Ringo Starr is 68. Singer-musician Warren Entner (The Grass Roots) is 64. Rock musician Jim ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Actress Goldie Hawn, historian David McCullough and chef Jacques Pepin will be among the contributors to "The Book That Changed My Life: A Hundred Reasons to Read, From a Hundred ...

... 10, 9) NONFICTION 1. Get with the Program! Bob Greene. Simon & Schuster, $24 (-, 1) 2. John Adams. David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $35 (1, 32) 3. Theodore Rex. Edmund Morris. Random House, $35 (4, 6) 4. Jack ...

... 99 (7, 7) NONFICTION 1. The No Spin Zone. Bill O'Reilly. Broadway, $24.95 (1, 9) 2. John Adams. David McCullough. Simon & Schuster, $35 (2, 30) 3. The Final Days. Barbara Olson. Regnery, $27.95 (4, 9) 4. Theodore ...