1776
Gordon S. Wood – The Washington Post
David McCullough, America\’s most celebrated popular historian, has done it again — written another engaging work of narrative history. This book, however, is very different from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Harry Truman and John Adams. Not only is it much shorter than those gigantic tomes, but it is not the life of a famous person. Instead, it\’s the story of a single year, the birth-year of the United States.