![]() ![]() As McCullough paints Cutler, he is much like McCullough himself: a curious, entrepreneurial, Yale-educated, affable country gentleman. Manasseh Cutler was a Massachusetts polymath who lobbied the federal government to grant land to the Ohio Company. McCullough tips his hand in the book’s subtitle: “The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West.” His main actors are two founders of the Ohio Company of Associates, a group that, beginning in 1787, settled just north of the Ohio River. His most recent book, “The Pioneers,” a history of the settlement of the Northwest Territory in the years after the American Revolution, is very much in that upbeat tradition. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough is a master of triumphal tales that celebrate Americans’ personal fortitude and achievements. ![]()
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