David McCullough, 1776, New York, 2006, 294 Pages.

1776 by David McCullough captures the privately year that includes the American Revolution and the Continental Congress, where the decision was made that colonies would fight for their independence from Great Britain. The bestseller is divided in three parts in rough chronological order. McCullough includes some of the thought process behind the colonies desire for independence, but he focuses more on the war between the colonies and the British and the people behind those actions. The balance between the two sides are represented as unbiasedly as possible, to portray them evenly. This book tells the story of how General George Washington almost came to defeat in the year 1776. This is also the year that the Declaration of Independence was written. Washington assumed that the British were about to capture Philadelphia after crossing the Delaware river.. Philadelphia was also known as the capital of the revolution. Washington wrote that the only thing the enemy was waiting for to attack was "ice for a passage, and the dissolution of the poor remains of our debilitated army." (270) Washington was sorely mistaken. McCullough uses the statement that the war was lost by the British rather than won by the Americans. At this point, General Howe, …show more content…
The witnesses give very clear and articulate details to give a clear insight into 1776. The narrowing of the book down to one year presented advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that McCullough tells the narrative of fabled Long March, to show parallelism from hope and despair and back to hope again. The disadvantage is the lack of political information. Nothing was included about loyalist and their conflicts with those who wanted a revolution. Many other literary works included this information and topics like it, but not even a taste was added in this