Brave Companions

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David McCullough, author of Truman, has collected his favorite pieces -- profiles of exceptional men and women past and present who have not only shaped the course of history or changed how we see the world but whose stories express much that is timeless about the human condition.

Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose epic explorations of South America surpassed the Lewis and Clark expedition; Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little woman who made the big war"; Frederic Remington; the extraordinary Louis Agassiz of Harvard; Charles and Anne Lindbergh, and their fellow long-distance pilots, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Beryl Markham; Harry Caudill, the Kentucky lawyer who awakened the nation to the tragedy of Appalachia; David Plowden, a present-day photographer of vanishing America.

Different as they are from each other, McCullough's subjects have in common a rare vitality and sense of purpose. These are brave companions: to each other, to David McCullough, and to the reader, for with rare storytelling ability McCullough brings us into the times they knew, and their very uncommon lives.

What Customers Say About Brave Companions:

TRUMAN was excellent. This one strikes me as something he wrote just to satisfy a publishing comittment. I love this author. I've read all of his books. Move past it.

I have read all of David McCullough books, and except for this one, found them all to be excellent. This book reads like it was put together from pieces that were edited out of other books and the only purpose was to get another pay day.Bill Peperone, Kenner, Louisiana

Yet another interesting, historically truthful book.Great reading for primary age children so they can know the real truth about the establishment of our nation and the truth about the people who established it--warts and all.

You feel the characters and really get to know much more about them than you ever learned in school. David McCullough writes history in a non-textbook way. Great book.

I found out things about the most amazing people who (for the most part) are unknown today. Read it. I read this book with a smile on my face the whole time. I finished with the desire to have everyone read this wonderful book.