Cutler declined to give up his pulpit in New England and settle in Ohio himself instead, he sent his eldest son. 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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