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1776
by David McCullough
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Seller
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Roseburg, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Quarterbound sky blue and navy paper hardcover boards with gilt lettering to spine. Endpapers feature pictorial view of Boston Harbor and of the Royal Navy in New York harbor. Hardcover in near fine conditions, no defects noted. Deckled edges to text block.
DJ is not price clipped, and has only some minor scuffing and one small closed tear to top rear of DJ.
David McCullough, the author, was an American popular historian an a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, national Book Award winner, and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In this work, the author and historian writes the stirring story of the year of our nations birth, interweaving, on both sides of the Atlantic, the actions and decisions that led Great Britain to undertake a war against her rebellious colonial subjects that placed America's survival in the hands of George Washington. An intensely human story.
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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
- Bonnie Lane Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 04-03-2023-06
- Title
- 1776
- Author
- David McCullough
- Format/Binding
- Tight, as new
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743226712
- ISBN 13
- 9780743226714
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 386
- Size
- 9 7/16" x 6 3/8"
- Keywords
- Early American History, George Washington, Revolutionary War.
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