Title: Doesn't Quite Come Together
Review: McCullough probably knows 18th century America as well as anyone alive today, and yet in focusing on one year of that century, even what is arguably its most dynamic and important year, he misses the scope that was there to make John Adams the great book it was.1776 had a hollow feel to it. It seemed hurried and shallow and had it been slightly longer I think it would have benefitted from greater exploration of the daily life in these times. This book is still worth reading and is yet another feather in its author's cap. In other hands this would probably be a book I'd speak of with more praise and less nitpicking, but knowing as I do what McCullough is capable of in top form, I recognized that this book was slightly sub-par for an historian and writer of his talents.I do, however, look forward to his next book, which I'll be sure to pre-order, as I did 1776.
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