For years, from a wireless cottage on the grounds of his house on Martha’s Vineyard, McCullough completed works on a Royal Standard typewriter that changed minds and shaped the marketplace. And millions of readers, and the smaller circle of award givers, welcomed him above all others. Interviewed in 2001 by The Associated Press, McCullough responded to criticism that he was too soft on Truman and others by saying that “some people not only want their leaders to have feet of clay, but to be all clay.”īut even peers who found flaws in his work praised his kindness and generosity. “McCullough’s main weakness is one he shares with Truman: He occasionally fails to wrestle with the moral complexities of policy,” Walter Isaacson once wrote in Time magazine. A non-academic, McCullough was not loved by all reviewers, who accused him of avoiding the harder truths about his subjects and of placing storytelling above analysis.
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