On 2010-03-15 Roy E. Whitman, wrote: Expertly written with a high degree of craftmanship and scholarship, the audio version of this work takes the listener on a journey through the year 1776 and all of its military exploits with ear-catching detail. Being visually impaired, the audio version of this work was a God-send and comprised five separate CD´s with a total of approximately six hours of enjoyable listening. It is also a real treat to hear the author himself reading from his own work in a clear and deliberate voice. His narrative, which is almost melodic at times, is punctuated with eyewitness accounts to the American Revolution through the use of diaries, letters, documents. His character descriptions, especially of George Washington and King George III, as well as the various generals involved, is superbly done. His main thesis that the American Revolution succeeded only against all odds is a point well taken and dramatically depicted in this great work.. And summed up by saying History at its finest. Currently 1776 has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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David McCullough claimed 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.
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