I can listen to David McCullough all day! He is so interesting and informative. My favorite author. Just a fascinating person. RIP!!

A great book about people that moved to Paris from all parts of the world to learn from professors about painting, medicine, sculpturing, building, etc. So much historical content. Truly a masterpiece!

Read his book on my way to Paris. I could relate to the books characters reaction at times. I cannot imagine not having read it prior. Mr. McCullough will live on forever!

That voice!  I love listening to him read read his own books.

David McCullough wrote the most interesting book in my collection.His writing is well researched and remains in my mind.  The book is filled with colorful illustrations of the artists work. Thank you David!❤

A wonderful, fascinating book !

David’s passing is a loss for us all. He remains one of America’s greatest person’s, we have lost a treasure.

Anytime one has the opportunity to hear David McCullough speak, it is nothing less than a humbling experience.  When you have him together in a Q&A session with a chair like Brian Lamb it now becomes a higher form of intellectual enlightenment.  I was enthralled to hear Mr McCullough talk about Elihu Washburne and the part he played in recording the Siege of Paris during the writing of his book.  A most cherished book in my 19th century French history section is Alistair Horne's “The Fall of Paris”.  Reference's to E.B. Washburne's “Recollections of a Minister to France” 1869-1877, is interwoven throughout it. Thank You CSPAN.

What a great conversation. David McCullough is an extremely interesting person and obviously loves learning. I will get this book.

This is so fascinating! My man was a walking encyclopedia! Listening to him makes me feel like I’ve been wasting my life! The world literally has lost its way.

I can't imagine this video has only 40k views and 14 comments after 10 years! Great history lesson.

Wonderful book. I love the curiosity of Brian Lamb. He goes wherever it takes him in an interview. No one else does that, e.g., picture on the back cover.

Wayzata west of Minneapolis is where the Pillsbury family lives and lived. It is a wealthy town that lies near Lake Minnetonka where Mark Twain visited and described. It may seem of little note but was very much a place of note in the making of Minnesota.

This video should have a lot more views.

He mentions Greenough in passing.  That would be Horatio Greenough, an immensely important influence on American art and architecture.  It was Greenough who first expressed the maxim that form follows function, not Louis Sullivan as most think.  It was Greenough who criticized early plans for a colonnade around the base of the Washington Monument, which would only have detracted from the power of a simple obelisk.

Phenomenal interview with a talented author.  

Among other things, one we wonders how —or even whether— these Americans managed to acquire skills in French sufficient to understand the instruction at the universities and at what level. What activities did their studies consist of, and what knowledge did they actually take away? |  Meanwhile, has there ever been a better storyteller than McCullough?  Thank You, sir and R.I.P. ...

David McCullough is a national treasure. He and other popular historical writers such as Doris Kearns Goodwin and Barbara Tuchman before them have been ripped apart by historians in the academic world. Screw them. McCullough writes about events in our nation's history so that all Americans can understand and appreciate the great people and events that shaped our country. I guess it's jealousy. McCullough and Goodwin have sold millions of books. The academic world takes itself too seriously.

@Davemanz He has two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, Adams and Truman, and two National Book Awards,The Path Between the Seas and Morning on Horseback...Terrible?

Outstanding. Informational, great insight.