#The Great Bridge

[deadpresidents]

Sad to hear about David McCullough dying recently. He's written some great biographies.

Yes, I was also saddened by his recent passing. When it comes to writers and historians, David McCullough has always been one of my heroes. I feel that very few historians have had the ability to make such deeply-researched, scholarly work as readable as David McCullough was able to do. In almost every instance, his books were as literary as they were historical, and that required very distinct talents as a storyteller. When I was growing up, it was McCullough who first made me realize that, when done masterfully at the highest level, writing history could be a form of art. And David McCullough was clearly an artist.

I've been a fan of pretty much every book that David McCullough ever wrote, from his biographies of John Adams (undoubtedly my favorite of his Presidential biographies), Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry S Truman to The Johnstown Flood and The Great Bridge, among others. And while his entire bibliography is worth checking out, I think his masterpiece is The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. I'll miss his voice (as a writer, of course, but also his literal voice as a narrator of documentaries) and am disappointed that we won't get new books from him, but he leaves behind a legendary library of work and I'll always be grateful for the example he set as a writer and as a lifelong advocate for expanding history literacy in the United States.

#David McCullough #RIP #RIP David McCullough #History #Historians #Writers #Writing #History Literacy #John Adams #Mornings On Horseback #Truamn #The Johnstown Flood #The Great Bridge #Brooklyn Bridge #The Path Between the Seas #Panama Canal #Art #Artists

[dweemeister]

August 8, 2022

(The New York Times) – David McCullough, who was known to millions as an award-winning, best-selling author and an appealing television host and narrator with a rare gift for recreating the great events and characters of America’s past, died on Sunday at his home in Hingham, Mass., southeast of Boston. He was 89.

The death was confirmed by his daughter Dorie Lawson. No specific cause was given.

Mr. McCullough won Pulitzer Prizes for two presidential biographies, “Truman” (1992) and “John Adams” (2001). He received National Book Awards for “The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal” (1977) and “Mornings on Horseback” (1981), about the young Theodore Roosevelt and his family.

Deep research and lively readability were hallmarks of his books, and so was their tendency to leap off the shelves. “Truman” topped The New York Times’s best-seller list for 43 weeks; “John Adams” was No. 1 in its first week and has since gone through dozens more printings.

His readers got a lot of work for their money: The Adams project took Mr. McCullough seven years, and “Truman” took him 10 (and when at last he showed his wife, Rosalee McCullough, the massive typescript, he said, she was amazed that it hadn’t taken longer). “The Great Bridge” (1972), his exhaustive account of the technology, personalities and politics involved in building the Brooklyn Bridge, was hailed as a monument in its own right. Yet there was hardly anything in his writing to suggest that he had ever staggered under the weight of his homework.

#David McCullough #John Adams #Truman #The Great Bridge #Mornings on Horseback #The Path Between the Seas #The Greater Journey: American in Paris #1776 #The Civil War #Ken Burns #American Experience #PBS #New York Times #obituary #it's time for me to start reading Truman I think

[thatsashitplan]

I know Katie Mcgrath is like the most accepted fan cast for Lady Loki (I think?) but may I propose,, Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Loki

#is this a bad idea #I still love katie mcgrath but I think phoebe would be great for the TVA version of Loki #shes great #imagine her with mobius #iconic #lokius #loki laufeyson #loki series #loki odinson #marvel #tom hiddleston #mcu #loki season 2 #mobius m mobius #owen wilson #fleabag #phoebe waller bridge #hot priest

[saturnisfallingdown]

defending SING is so basic. talk to me when you're ready to take a bullet for the 3rd conventional weapons track AMBULANCE

#/LH OFC. im joshing im joking. but NOT about loving ambulance id NEVER hate ambulance #i'm listening to the very critical chemical fancast coverage of ambulance and shaking my head. only i understand her.... #''these lyrics arent great'' ''the bridge is mediocre'' yeah. but have you tried to have some FUN !!!!!! #mcr

[aye-of-newt]

if mizu isn't queer then why did they see gay heaven while bleeding out?????

#ahhhh so THIS is the great rainbow bridge..... #all queers go to heaven #blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai spoilers #q

[illustratus]

View of the Old Welsh Bridge, Shrewsbury, c.1770

by Paul Sandby

#paul sandby #art #england #bridge #old welsh bridge #shrewsbury #architecture #landscape #architectural #romanticism #romantic #europe #history #great britain #britain #nature #trees #river #stream

[nakedmonkey]

#these are not great but i had to cause no one else has #under the bridge #riley keough #lily gladstone #crazy stuff

[ato-dato]

HELP! I don't know what comic idea to work on!!! Please!!! This is a life or death situation!!!! Help!!!

#I made a poll on twitter as well!! Let's hope you all want the same things hehehe #Idk what im gonna do if you don't.. #Maybe.. The one with the highest percentage number first? #Idkk #I'll cross that bridge when I come to it #Great saying btw #Anyway #Atospeaks #Good omens comic #Good omens

[otaku553]

Procrastination doodles of sabo for the king sabo au :)

#one piece #sabo #king sabo au #I wonder sometimes if I keep thinking about this au because i like putting my blorbo through crushing existential nightmares #something something. it must feel so wrong to him. to be born like this and know that he’s not suppose to be there #but not having the memories of times in the wild with his brothers to contextualize why he feels wrong or where he’s supposed to be instead #directionless. knowing that he has to exist for some reason but not the reason that everyone around him tells him he should exist for #and continuing to try to bridge the cognitive dissonance through fallacy after fallacy until he is in too deep to escape #anyways. thinking about Him #Him is the academia mentality of ‘just keep going and you’ll eventually reach the light at the end of the tunnel’ #‘because you’ve tried so hard to get here and surely you must belong here because you’re so academically highly-achieving’ #does that make sense? maybe the parallel is a bit of a reach. I could write an essay about it tbh #I love this au lmao it’s both a lot of projecting and a great chance to be like ‘god I can make him so much worse’

[heavendraven]

update: senior year at engineering school has kicked my ass. I hate it here 😭 but I finished DGS a few weeks ago and I have developed brainrot over a certain sexy angsty prosecutor. and drawing this over spring break has only made me Worse about him. not sure how much of this I’ll be able to continue now that I’m back in class so here’s what I have so far (plus bonus b&w version where I closed his eyes and … uh)

#my art #wip #csp rough pencil finally bridged the gap between traditional art and digital art for me #the great ace attorney #dai gyakuten saiban #colors are mostly placeholders cause I suck at color #I'm sorry #I want to keep posting art but also it's really hard to when so little of it is finished #barok van zieks

[viridian-pickle]

#photography #luxury #aesthetic #beautiful #lifestyle #adventure #great outdoors #outdoors #dog #doggo #bridge #forest #moody aesthetic #rain #hike #walk #journey

[eskiworks]

Petite place for Cleo's dragon form, rest in peace good girl  <3

Posted using PostyBirb

#art #commissions #eskiworks #artists on tumblr #Cleo #great dane #dragon #floating island #rainbow bridge #memorial

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Great Blue Heron Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

#birds #birding #urban birding #nuts_about_birds #birdstagram #patch birding #nature blogger #nyc nature #brooklyn #brooklyn bridge park #nyc #nature #heron #great blue heron #garza

[crismakesstuff]

everytime I see someone bitch and moan about “the animation in invincible sucks” “they should treat the animators the same way MAPPA does”

i just ,,,,,

maybe we should sit YOU down in front of the computer and id like to see YOU animate smoothly and cleanly at 12-24 fps since y’all want that so bad !

#I’m so so fucking tired bro #YES I KNOW INVINCIBLE HAS LITTLE MOMENTS IN THE ANIMATION #I’m not saying it doesn’t #but anime does this shit all the time and no one complains about it ! #i personally think invincible’s little animation quirks are kinda cute #yes I would like to see more fights like the atom eve special bridge fight ! but I’m not gonna say the animation is bad #bc it objectively isn’t! #i just want more of the budget to go to animation instead of high profile voice actors ! #even tho they’re all great va’s I think no one would mind it if they used less expensive talent so the animation could be more flashy #i just want the artists to get paid well whenever they do do very action heavy shit that looks good! #ok bye #cris rant #invincible #invincible show #text post

[tora-the-cat]

An interesting little fun thing with team 7 is that you assume that Sakura's gonna, like, woobify and simplify Sasuke by putting him on a pedastal,cause her goal is centered around him and shes a 12 y/o fangirl so like of course her understanding of him is skewed cause she doesnt see him as a person, just an object of affection, right? She's can't get Sasuke, can't imprint on and/or traumabond with him like Naruto and Kakashi do. They don't see him with rose tinted glasses, because they've lived through their own Horrors and empathize with Sasuke's experience.

......right?

WRONG lmao!! They have too many ghosts!! Naruto's single-minded codependent ass won't get out of his own way long enough to see Sasuke for who he actually is, only able to empathize with the parts of his trauma Naruto relates to and not really capable of understanding him outside of the context of himself (because Sasuke is. His other half). And Kakashi is far too jaded to be fair to him!! He can't decide if Sasuke is gonna end up as a mini-him or a mini-Obito or maybe a mini-Itachi, but either way he ALSO is too traumatized to see Sasuke AS SASUKE.

meanehile SAKURA'S autistic ass may have dogshit empathy, but you know what she does have? A special interest in sasuke. Nothing better to do then give herself a degree in Uchihaisms. She can write character studies about him. she can read his soul. Whenever she says something about him she is right. Every fucking time! She is RIGHT!!!!

'sasuke would NOT compliment me this directly or explicitly express worry unprompted, especially if it gets in the way of his goals' correct.

'Sasuke shouldn't hide that curse on his neck its not healthy BUT if I tell anyone about it he'll never trust me again, which might be even more dangerous for him then the curse mark. Like he can probably handle the curse mark but no one else can stop him from ripping peoples arms off.' correct.

Speaking of! 'Sasuke would not hurt me even when he seems to be...possessed? whatever the only way to knock him out of it is to present myself as Alive and thus something to be protected rather then something to be avenged, because he gets really stuck in his own head about revenge' CORRECT

'hey so um. like. Sasuke's gonna leave Konoha. I'm not sure anything can stop him at this point and honestly I'm kinda starting to doubt anything should, so the only thing I could possibly do to help him at this point is ALSO defect.' CORRECT!!!!

#shout out to @Obihoe cause this started as a tag comment on one of your posts that got WAY too out of hand. just like old times lol #team 7 #haruno sakura #sakura haruno #sasuke uchiha #team crackhead #naruto #naruto uzumaki #sasusaku #doesn't have to be but like. Yeah #for the record no disrespect to my boys Naruto n Kakashi I love them dearly. but like. they got their issues. that's half the fun of team 7 #And Sakura has her problems with Sasuke too!! But her problems have nothing to do with understand him or his motivations or his personhood #and more to do with. Well. her absolute dogshit empathy. Emotionally disregulated ass. #'if you leave me I'll feel just like you did when your parents died' My beloved. Iconic. Great line. No notes. She's really just still so #inexperienced and naive that means she can explain and predict and KNOW him and his actions but still not empathize. She can say shit #like that with a straight face because she's never FELT loss like this before (except that minute she thought he was dead on the bridge) #so she can't imagine a worse pain. Just assumes it can't GET worse because she has no emotional concept of 'worse'. so it must be the same #she's literally the only person with a chance of convincing Sasuke to take her with him to Orochimaru because he's SASUKE of course she #knows all the right pressure points and keywords and concerns and stuff that she needs to convince him. #she's literally playing a little diolouge tree game with him. And maybe even winning up until that line! it's the dealbreaker

[heyyallitsbeth]

Okay so ive always had issue with people complaining about literary analysis with the whole "sometimes the curtains were just blue" but like. stop for a moment and think. just for a moment.

Why would an author bother calling attention to an unimportant detail? Theres only so much space in a book, when there's so much story to be told. Why would they single out a detail like that, when its clear that it should just be a background detail, something glanced over and not thought of.

Authors are not stupid, and theyre rarely pretentious. These details have meaning because they are fixated upon.

Why would Katherine Paterson write a whole chapter in Bridge to Terabithia about a family remodelling a living room? Because the golden room is the family's fresh start. They're starting over fresh, its a new day, a new world for them. The room isnt the focus, the characters are.

Why would F Scott Fitzgerald call attention to the green light across the bay in The Great Gatsby? Who cares about some dumb light illuminating the bay? Because its not about the light. Its symbolism. Gatsby sees a beacon every night, something that drives him forward, a goal that he so desperately wants to attain, visible, but just out of reach.

Media is not always intended to be taken at face value. Creators strive to make something their audience will think about, brew over, be inspired by, and truly love and appreciate. Its not about the curtains. It never was, and never is.

#english literature #literary analysis #curtains are blue #bridge to terabithia #the great gatsby #great gatsby