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, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, and mere boys turned soldiers. 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.
In this epic, Pulitzer prize-winning biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution. Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many. His rocky relationship with friend and eventual archrival Thomas Jefferson, his courageous voyages and mountain treks are exploits few would have dared.
John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This is history on a grand scale -- an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
Winner of the 1982 National Book Award for Biography, Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt, seriously handicapped by recurrent and nearly fatal attacks of asthma, and his struggle to manhood. It spans seventeen years -- from 1869 when "Teedie" is ten, to 1886 when he returns from the West a "real life cowboy" to pick up the pieces of a shattered life and begin anew, a grown man.
This is a tale about family love and loyalty...about courtship, childbirth and death, fathers and sons...about gutter politics and the tumultuous Republican Convention of 1884...about grizzly bears, grief and courage, and "blessed" mornings on horseback.
Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S. Truman has captured the heart of the nation. Truman provides a deeply moving look at an extraordinary, singular American. From Truman's small-town, turn-of-the-century boyhood, his transforming experience in the face of war in 1918, to his political beginnings and rapid rise to prominence, and the weighty decision to use the atomic bomb. McCullough shows, in colorful detail, a man of uncommon vitality and strength of character---a compelling, classic portrait of a life that shaped history.
