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David McCullough
A beloved middle-grade/young adult book
Ben and Me by
Robert Lawson
Biography
David McCullough, famous historian and author, perhaps discovered his life's work in reading this book.
"In writing history and biography, one has to call on imagination - in the sense of transporting oneself into that other time and the lives of those other people, all vanished, distant and different."
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