Seventeen Seventy-sixAmerica’s beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nation’s birth, 1776, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects and that placed 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 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 a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It 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 King’s men, 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. 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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
1776 DAVID MCCULLOUGH 1P_McCullough_1776_REP_AM.indd abandon Boston ADAMS AND 1776 advance guard AMERICAN SPIRIT attack AUTHOR OF JOHN AWARD DAVID MCCULLOUGH battle bayonets BESTSELLER David MCCULLOUGH BOOK AWARD DAVID Book Review BRAVE COMPANIONS Bridge brigades British army British command Brooklyn lines Bunker Hill Colonel John Congress Connecticut DAVID MCCULLOUGH MCCULLOUGH DAVID WINNER daybreak enemy express rider fight fire Flatbush Graydon hand Harlem Haslet Hessians horse Howard’s indecision ington JOHN ADAMS DAVID John Adams TRUMAN Joseph Reed Knowlton letter Lieutenant London masterwork Mercer Mifflin MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK move Nathanael Greene NATIONAL BESTSELLER David NATIONAL BOOK AWARD night numbered old Dutch orchard ordered Pennsylvania Philadelphia pick and shovel PRIZE-WINNING JOHN ADAMS PULITZER PRIZE DAVID PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING JOHN Rall rebels redcoats retreat Scammell ships side Staten Island Story storyteller Sullivan troops veteran of Bunker Virginia Washington wounded Wright Brothers wrote YORK TIMES BESTSELLER York Times Book