{
  "id": 924085,
  "title": "“To Write Well is to Think Clearly”: David McCullough",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/to-write-well-is-to-think-clearly-david-mccullough",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Conversable Economist",
    "slug": "conversable-economist",
    "url": "https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/08/13/to-write-well-is-to-think-clearly-david-mccullough/"
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  "summary": "The great historian David McCullough (1933-2022) won the Pulitzer prize for biography twice, for his books on Truman and John Adams, but he also wrote best-selling books on the Panama Canal, the Johnstown Flood, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Wright brothers, and others. Here are his comments in a 2002 interview with Bruce Cole on the … Continue reading “To Write Well is to Think Clearly”: David…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}