Compare McCullough’s portraits of George Washington and Harry S. Truman. How does each man represent leadership?

Analyze how McCullough uses art and architecture in his essays. Consider his discussions of Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, Thomas Eakins’s The Gross Clinic, and public works like the Golden Gate Bridge.

Consider McCullough’s method of “looking at your fish.” How does this observational method shape his profiles of non-political figures like Thomas Eakins and Harriet Beecher Stowe?