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“A wonderful history of a watershed year from our most beloved historian. I’m a bit baffled by the complaints of “dryness” below, as I know of no history writer more “moist” than McCullough, whose works are so vivid and gripping that they read like novels. This one covers the first year of the Revolutionary War, which was characterized mainly by defeat, ineptitude and the ironclad determination of General George Washington against all odds. Read this before or after McCullough’s magnificent biography of John Adams for maximum pleasure. ”
