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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (85004)	2/5/2013 6:22:32 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) of 119360

I was in a conversation a day or two ago with a man (though he seemed to me more like a teenager) who is maybe 42 years old, who offered the opinion that David McCullough (aged 80 this year) could not have written his recent book "The Greater Journey" himself because he was too old. This person had not read the book. When I hear an opinion like that, I find myself so stultified ("turned into a fool") that I have nothing to say. If I had been warned in advance, I might have said: "What is amazing is not so much that he had the energy to write the book, as that you are do not seem to have the energy to read it." In fact, McCullough makes very limited use of editorial assistants or researchers. In that book, he hardly needed any. He just located and used all the letters and diaries that no one else had made use of. There have in fact been some critical, almost hostile reviews of the book. No one has dared to suggest that other people wrote McCullough's book for him other than this jerk that I had the misfortune to encounter.

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