1776.
“THERE ARE NO PEOPLE ON EARTH IN WHOM A SPIRIT OF ENTHUSIASTIC ZEAL IS SO READILY KINDLED, AND BURNS SO REMARKABLY, AS AMERICANS”: FIRST EDITION OF DAVID MCCULLOUGH'S 1776; SIGNED BY HIM
1776.
MCCULLOUGH, David.
Item Number: 119522
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
First edition of this work by McCullough, considered a companion piece to his earlier biography of John Adams which focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolution. Octavo, original half-cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “For Joe from David McCullough 2005.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Wendell Minor.
1776 is the story of men of every shape, size, color, and profession turned soldiers; those who marched with George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence. It is also a story of the King’s Men, the British Commander, William Howe, and his team of redcoats combating who they considered rebellious enemies.
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