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.
The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. When George Washington, general and commander in chief of the Continental Army, led his troops to victory, absolute power was within his grasp. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost - Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. And if he had been a fool or a self-indulgent, lazy glory-hound, it couldve. 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. David McCullough: George Washington was our greatest president in that he set the standard. Another surprise is that David McCullough, best known for Rushmore-size biographies of underrated presidents, wrestles America's founding year into a taut 294 pages of text, describing the. 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.īased 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.
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