Date: July 30, 2005

1776 by David McCullough

BCDC's rating: 3.7

The menu for this meeting: Blueberry pie, Virginia wine, pasta, cheese, crackers, fig spread, puffed rice bars, and more

The BCDC Reading Guide for this book is below.

• Is it possible to "lead" such a disparate and tired bunch of soldiers? When they were finally victorious, was it due to Washington's leadership or just luck?
• How do you explain the variability in Washington's strategic analyses? (Compare NY to Trenton.)
• You were living in the Colonies in 1776; loyalist or rebel?
• How have regional stereotypes and prejudices stayed the same or changed fro 1776 to today?
• What do you think of McCullagh's choice to not write about the whole Revolution and just focus on 1776?
• Given that a) the book does not start in 177t, bhte Battle of Bunker Hill was rferred to so much, why do you think the book does not start with the Battle of Bunker Hill?