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...
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. Based 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. 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. But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle. The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. 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. 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.
Quote: He (Washington) was not a brilliant strategist or tactician, nor a gifted orator, not an intellectual. At several crucial moments he had shown marked indecisiveness. He had made serious mistakes in judgment. But experience had been his great teacher ...
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It is an amazing book by David McCullough who has won his Pulitzer Prize by the book of "John Adams". As an historian, McCullough concentrated on not only the astronomical (at least to me) collection of facts and evidence but also the organization of them...
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Simon & Schuster2005版
0 有用 Grin Ranger 2014-02-27 19:58:07
乔治.华盛顿，家里养着黑奴、屯着大片土地、自信基本来自于着装打扮和骏马、战略思想远低于同时代其他领袖，但他的伟大在于打了一年的败仗依旧执着，用残兵两千偷袭强大的对手，奇迹般零伤亡胜出，成为开国元勋。
0 有用 Grin Ranger 2014-02-27 19:58:07
乔治.华盛顿，家里养着黑奴、屯着大片土地、自信基本来自于着装打扮和骏马、战略思想远低于同时代其他领袖，但他的伟大在于打了一年的败仗依旧执着，用残兵两千偷袭强大的对手，奇迹般零伤亡胜出，成为开国元勋。