I find the older, post-canonization David McCullough a little hard to take. Doubtless, envy has poisoned my judgment. The guy has two Pulitzer Prizes, a honeyed writing style, and book sales that reliably register 6.0 and higher on the Grisham Scale.
But I don't trust his work anymore. McCullough specializes in feel-good history for the Masterpiece Theatre set...
- http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2008/03/26/historically_accurate_tv_a_revolutionary_idea/ (Open in New Window)
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Topic - "Historically accurate TV? A revolutionary idea." Boston Globe on John Adams (HBO) - clarkjohnsen 11:23:38 03/27/08 (1)
- I watched about forty minutes and Giamatti said about three sentences....WTF? * - woof 17:39:07 03/27/08 (0)