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.
At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young
American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what
they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a
general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old
bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of
Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter.
But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost --
Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. 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.
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