John Adams started flying off shelves long before September 11 and, in any event, McCullough, who also wrote Truman, has a gift for elegantly prodding the nation into revery over his biographical subjects, whenever he publishes. But the little man who lives on my left shoulder and always tells me who's not wearing underwear doesn't think that's the reason.
That, at least, is how many observers explain the popularity this year of David McCullough's John Adams and Theodore Rex (Random House, $35), Edmund Morris' new second installment in his planned three-volume study of Theodore Roosevelt. Edmund Morris in Austin last week (Photo By John Anderson)ĭuring a national crisis, we like to gather 'round and listen to stories about our noble forefathers.
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