McCullough strategically and chronologically delineates each battle of the Revolution beginning with the Battle of Bunker Hill. Through the use of visual aids such as maps and pictures depicting battles as well as the inclusion of personal and formal letters,McCullough is able to portray a vision of American hardship and success on a more personal level than most historic writers. In an informative tone, McCullough brings the American Revolution to life as he reiterates America’s history through the incorporation of derails pertaining to each of the important figures of the war as well as the story format of his well-researched book. Dorman T.Book Critique: 1776 by David Mccullough gakatarr 1776, a brilliant book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough, retells the story of America’s brutal battle for independence throughout the American Revolution. Newsweek Should be required reading in living rooms from coast to coast. 1776 is vintage McCullough: colorful, eloquent and illuminating. The New York Times Book Review Brilliant. Review Quotes A stirring and timely work. Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCulloughs 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history. And it is the story of the Kings 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.
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.
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. 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.
About the Book Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Truman and John Adams, David McCullough returns with the story of the Revolutionary War-a book certain to be another landmark in the literature of American history.Simon and Schuster Book Synopsis Americas beloved and distinguished historian presents, in a book of breathtaking excitement, drama, and narrative force, the stirring story of the year of our nations 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 Americas survival in the hands of George Washington.
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