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1776 by David McCullough
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really liked it
bookshelves: american-history

Surprisingly I found navigating the battle scenes exhilarating, familiarity with each location also helped.
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Reading Progress

April 18, 2016 – Shelved
April 18, 2016 – Shelved as: to-read
April 26, 2016 – Started Reading
April 27, 2016 – Shelved as: american-history
May 4, 2016 –
page 5
1.3% ""unaffected good nature" of George III"
May 4, 2016 –
page 27
6.99% ""Mount Whoredom""
May 4, 2016 –
page 42
10.88% "(Washington ) a leader must look and act the part."
May 4, 2016 –
page 49
12.69% "Virginia planters and their high-and-mighty airs, ...stunning incongruity in the cause of liberty being led by a slavemaster"
May 10, 2016 –
page 294
76.17% "The year 1776... (for those who carried the fight for independence foward) a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear,...but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country..."
May 10, 2016 – Finished Reading

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