| David McCullough's 1776 is an awesome presentation of the American Revolution, McCullough goes into the human events during the revolution and about the fatal compromises and failings that eventually poisoned the young republic and still haunts us to this day (slavery, faith and the press). The book goes to some length to present the British position at the time too, a great cautionary study on the idle arrogance of an unchallenged superpower and how their inability to empathize with the rebels doomed the war. McCullough won the Pulitzer price twice. |