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  • This book is a very informative look at a single year in American history. I liked learning about the British and Loyalist point of view as well as the problems Washington had in keeping the army together. The portraits, letters and the maps also add to the experience.

    

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  • 1776

  • Once again, David McCullough has made history fun. I didn't realize how much I didn't know about the details of the Revolutionary War until I listened to this book. McCullough also reads the book himself adding that touch only the author can and he's got a great reading voice as well.

    

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  • It was very long and not quite what I expected but it was decent overall. I'd recommend it highly to people interested in historical books.

    

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• ― catchburns said on May 13, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

In this stirring audiobook, 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 their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle.

The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. Especially in our own tumultuous time, 1776 is powerful testimony to how much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding epoch, and what a miracle it was that things turned out as they did.

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.

• 1776AmericaDeclaration of IndependenceGeneral George Washingtonfoundationmarchpivotal yearRevolutionary WarUS historynonfiction
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