Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor - Softcover

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An encyclopedic biography of the Revolutionary War general whose name became synonymous with treason. Randall's narrative covers Arnold's whole life, including his military heroics for the American Revolutionary War, and the often undeserved charges of misconduct leveled against Arnold after the Canadian campaign and by civilian authorities in Philadephia (where he was military commander), which led to a humiliating public court martial and Arnold's defection to the British in 1780. A journalist and author of A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son (LJ 11/1/84) , Randall has written a narrative rather than interpretive study. Though well researched, it retells an account which has been standard for over half a century. Academic readers will find nothing new here. For the general reader, James Thomas Flexner's The Traitor and the Spy ( 1953) remains the popular standard.
- David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
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