![]() George Washington, "considered his life's cause, his great mission, to record for subsequent generations the drama and the participants of his time," McCullough says. The great painter John Trumbull, who served in the Revolutionary War as an aide to Gen. McCullough has also included paintings from the time that he says provide historians with as much insight as the written word. Now there's a new version of the book 1776, with some of those diary entries and letters. ![]() When the Pulitzer Prize-winning author first wrote about the Revolution, he based much of his narrative on diaries and letters. "There was no coverage of the war by the press." "The illustration, the reporting on the Revolutionary War was practically nothing by our terms," author David McCullough tells Steve Inskeep. ![]() That was not the case during America's first war. The Iraq war is chronicled constantly in photographs, newspaper stories, first-person accounts, editorials and books. ![]()
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