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1776
by David McCullough (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2005 Simon & Schuster, New York. 2005. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Inscribed by the author in a flowing penmanship on the title page dated Summer 2005. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good+; light bumping to head, tail, and tips; light shelfwear to board edges. DJ: Very Good+; NOT Price Clipped ($32.00); light bumping to head, tail, and tips. Blue paper over boards with dark blue overlay on spine; bright gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. 386 pp 8vo. An intensely moving 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. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket
Synopsis
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, 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. Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015436
- Title
- 1776
- Author
- David McCullough (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- American Revolution, Revolutionary War, Red Coats, Declaration of Independence, General George Washington, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, King George III, Siege of Boston, 1776, Continental Army, William Howe, Battle of Brooklyn, David McCullough
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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