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America’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year in our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to attempt a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and this put America’s survival in the hands of George Washington.
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on the success, without which all expect independence could have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration could have amounted to bit more than words in some recoverable format.
Predicated on intensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a robust drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It's the story of Americans in the ranks, men of each shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. Which is the story of the King’s men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on the rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor inadequate known.
Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough’s 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history.
