He sometimes unnecessarily risked his army's destruction attempting to match wits with more competent and experienced British generals. Much of the book focuses on Commander-in-Chief General George Washington. The struggle in the New York or in New Jersey theater would designates the fate of New York City (the most strategically important urban center in the fledgling nation). 1776 is mainly a military history tracing the tragic events of the year in which the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It also describes the sacrifices early countrymen had to make. This book tells the story of the extreme challenges General Washington faced trying to get rag-tag army together in 1776. The intended audience is people who are interested in the United States historical events that had major influence on today's state of the country. He got an awful lot of it very wrong.I read a David McCullough book "1776 ". "There was no formal signing where everybody was present. Trumbull's famous painting, The Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776, represents the signing of the document as "an extremely formal scene."īut McCullough says it never took place. George Washington, "considered his life's cause, his great mission, to record for subsequent generations the drama and the participants of his time," McCullough says. The great painter John Trumbull, who served in the Revolutionary War as an aide to Gen. McCullough has also included paintings from the time that he says provide historians with as much insight as the written word. Now there's a new version of the book 1776, with some of those diary entries and letters. When the Pulitzer Prize-winning author first wrote about the Revolution, he based much of his narrative on diaries and letters. "There was no coverage of the war by the press."
"The illustration, the reporting on the Revolutionary War was practically nothing by our terms," author David McCullough tells Steve Inskeep.
That was not the case during America's first war. The Iraq war is chronicled constantly in photographs, newspaper stories, first-person accounts, editorials and books.
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