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The tragedy of Benedict Arnold : an American life
- Title
- The tragedy of Benedict Arnold : an American life / Joyce Lee Malcolm.
- Author
- Malcolm, Joyce Lee
- Publication
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
- ©2018
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- xx, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map; 24 cm
- Summary
- Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm skillfully unravels the man behind the myth and gives us a portrait of the true Arnold and his world. There was his dramatic victory against the British at Saratoga in 1777 and his troubled childhood in a pre-revolutionary America beset with class tension and economic instability. We witness his brilliant wartime military exploits and learn of his contentious relationship with a newly formed and fractious Congress, fearful of powerful military leaders, like Arnold, who could threaten the nation's fragile democracy. Throughout, Malcolm weaves in portraits of Arnold's great allies--George Washington, General Schuyler, his beautiful and beloved wife Peggy Shippen, and others--as well as his unrelenting enemy John Adams, British General Clinton, and master spy John Andre. Thrilling and thought-provoking, The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold sheds new light on a man--as well on the nuanced and complicated time in which he lived.
- Subjects
- Generals
- United States
- HISTORY / Military / United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- Biography
- Generals > United States > Biography
- United States > Continental Army > Biography
- Biographies
- Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801
- HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- American loyalists > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The price of honor -- Great expectations -- Descent -- The fortunes of war -- Taking charge -- Smooth and choppy waters -- Love, marriage, duels, and honor -- "My country called" -- The race to seize forts -- Buried in the public calamity -- Honor in a "direful howling wilderness" -- A fierce attack, a winter siege -- Defending the lakes -- Don't tread on me -- "Besmirched honor" -- Savage warfare -- Defending New York, again -- The fatal blow -- The wages of victory -- The eye of the storm -- The court-martial -- Becoming Gustavus Monk -- Treason -- Afterword -- Final thoughts.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-9498
- ISBN
- 1681777371
- 9781681777375
- LCCN
- 2017278986
- OCLC
- 1005686008
- Author
- Malcolm, Joyce Lee, author.
- Title
- The tragedy of Benedict Arnold : an American life / Joyce Lee Malcolm.
- Publisher
- New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-9498