by David McCullough

published by Simon & Schuster

Pulitzer Prize-winner David McCullough's best-selling book 1776 comes to life in this new illustrated edition. Based on an abridged version of the enormously popular book, this lush edition includes 37 removable documents and 140 images, all serving to bring a new and powerful understanding to what was a critical year for the Continental Army. Both a distinctive art book and a collectible archive, 1776: The Illustrated Edition combines a treasury of eighteenth-century paintings, sketches, documents, and maps with storytelling by our nation's preeminent historian to tell the story of 1776 as never before.