David McCullough, Author of #1 NYTimes Best Seller PRAISES Laura Bush!

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[Recovering_Democrat]

McCullough is the author of the splendid biographies of Harry Truman, T.R. Roosevelt, and John Adams (his latest). He is giving a live lecture now, I'm sure it'll be replayed on CSPAN2 later. He began his remarks about how the National Book Festival is a wonderful event, and that we've never had a First Lady who was a librarian before, and that our CURRENT First Lady deserves all the credit and praise for putting together such an educational, terrific event--a NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL.

Even the liberals in the audience were forced to applaud! :)

[Charles Henrickson]

I have heard David McCullough speak here in St. Louis a couple of times, most recently in June. Excellent speaker. And in July, on a long drive out east, we listened to the audio book version of his John Adams. Very well done. The Truman book was good, too.

[ohioWfan]

He began his remarks about how the National Book Festival is a wonderful event, and that we've never had a First Lady who was a librarian before, and that our CURRENT First Lady deserves all the credit and praise...

Laura Bush is a wonderful, dignified, classy First Lady. Libs still try to put her down by saying that she's meek and retiring, and 'only seen by her husband's side' (as if being a loving wife is a bad thing!), but the more she is seen in the role of First Lady as she chooses to play it, the more praise she will get.

[marylina]

Thanks for the PING, ohio! So glad to know that First Lady Laura's kudos are starting to accumulate, and the liberal media cannot help but notice and report! YES!!!

[onyx]

I've always found him a great biographer and an engaging speaker, whether I agree with him or not.

[esmith]

I have been watching c-span most of the afternoon and it has been practically all about the book festival. I have been really disappointed in the fact that almost no newspapers have carried any articles about it. So far, I have only read 2 very short stories.

[daisyscarlett]

Ping for some information on the Book Fair!!

[onyx]

I would love to be watching c-span. Unfortunately, all TV screens are in the livingroom with a different football game on each. I shall be miserable on Sunday for another 20 weeks!

[swheats]

Thanks.

[Utah Girl]

Thanks for the ping! Nathaniel Philbrick who wrote In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex was interviewed during the Book Festival yesterday. He said that Laura Bush hit a home run with the festival. He was very complimentary too.

The thing I am irked about is the lack of press coverage for this event. One article that was written by AP, the WP and the NYT both copied that article verbatim. If you-know-who had organized this, it would have been the lead story.

[riley1992]

His biography "Truman" was one of the most extensive and fairly written books I have read.