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Nathaniel Philbrick, Master of the High Seas and Beyond

In the Fall of 2006, an acquaintance of mine lent me a stack of books that he had recently finished. The top one was Mayflower by an author I had not yet heard of. The subject matter seemed a little… Continue Reading →

Walter Isaacson, Biographer Extraordinaire

It started with Isaacson’s biography Benjamin Franklin: An American Life which provoked me to take in his most recent work, Steve Jobs.

David McCullough, “Citizen Chronicler”

Labeled the “citizen chronicler” by United States Congress Librarian James Billington, McCullough is the recipient of 2 Pulitzer Prizes, 2 National Book Awards, 2 Francis Parkman Prizes and the nation’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, justifiably deeming him America’s foremost narrator of it’s past.

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