In this stirring audio book, David McCullough (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) 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. The darkest hours of that year were as dark as any Americans have known. Especially in our own tumultuous time, 1776 is a 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. David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Truman and John Adams.