1776

1776: A man, his war, and their year

gregladen | July 15, 2017

1776 by David McCullough is not a new book -- it was published in 2006 -- but I just got around to reading it, enjoyed it, and wanted to say a few words about it. But first my David McCullough story. You probably don't know Scotty MacNeish (aka Richard Stockton MacNeish), but you should. He ended his illustrious career in a car accident in the field (in Belize, if I recall correctly) about 15 years ago, but many years before that he started out his career by discovering the origin of Maize, identifying its site of domestication and the timing of that important moment in Native American…