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In this stirring 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, school teachers, 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.
Author Bio
David McCullough was born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was educated there and at Yale. Author of John Adams, Truman, Brave Companions, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, and The Johnstown Flood, he has twice received the Pulitzer Prize (in 1993 for Truman and in 2001 for John Adams), the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and has received two National Book Awards -- for history and for biography.
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Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
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Category: History
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Published: May 24, 2005
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Published by: Simon Schuster
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Dimensions: 3.0" x 9.0" x 6.0"
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ISBN: 0743226712
