Author : James K. Martin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814756461
This landmark biography stands as an invaluable antidote to the historical distortion surrounding the life of Benedict Arnold.
Author : James K. Martin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2000-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814756468
This landmark biography stands as an invaluable antidote to the historical distortion surrounding the life of Benedict Arnold.
Author : Dr. Walter L. Powell
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2003-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823966271
Biography of the Revolutionary War patriot that turned traitor and fought for the British against the colonists.
Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1438143893
Chronicles the life and career of Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War hero who became America's most famous traitor.
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0698153235
A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the George Washington Prize A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye. "May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age—a volume that turns one of America’s best-known narratives on its head.”—Boston Globe "Clear and insightful, [Valiant Ambition] consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."—Wall Street Journal In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from withinComplex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.
Author : Walter L. Powell
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
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ISBN : 9781404266278
Author : Stephen Brumwell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300235186
A historian examines how a once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause became its most dishonored traitor. General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold’s defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had come to resent the lack of recognition for his merits and sacrifices. In this provocative book Stephen Brumwell challenges such interpretations and draws on unexplored archives to reveal other crucial factors that illuminate Arnold’s abandonment of the revolutionary cause he once championed. This work traces Arnold’s journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Brumwell’s research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold’s mystifying betrayal was driven by a staunch conviction that America’s best interests would be served by halting the bloodshed and reuniting the fractured British Empire. “Gripping… In a time when charges of treason and disloyalty intrude into our daily politics, Turncoat is essential reading.”—R. R. B. Bernstein, City College of New York “The most balanced and insightful assessment of Benedict Arnold to date. Utilizing fresh manuscript sources, Brumwell reasserts the crucial importance of human agency in history.”—Edward G. Lengel, author of General George Washington “An incisive study of the war and the very meaning of the American Revolution itself…. The defining portrait of Arnold for the twenty-first century.”—Francis D. Cogliano, author of Revolutionary America
Author : Aaron Derr
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2022-08-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1684526485
He was popular with his troops. And he was such a good soldier that Benedict Arnold became a major general in the Colonial Army. So how did a Revolutionary hero become known as one of the earliest spies in U.S. history?
Author : Dave Richard Palmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1596981644
From 1775 through 1777, George Washington and Benedict Arnold were America's two most celebrated warriors. Their earlier lives had surprisingly parallel paths. They were strong leaders in combat, they admired and respected each other, and they even shared common enemies. Yet one became our greatest hero and the other our most notorious traitor. Why? In the new paperback edition of George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots, author and military historian Dave Palmer reveals the answer: character.
Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Flash Point
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429951354
New York Times bestselling author, Newbery Honor recipient, and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin presents both the heroism and the treachery of one of the Revolutionary War's most infamous players in his biography of Benedict Arnold. Winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the YALSA-ALA Award for Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest Revolutionary War heroes. Steve Sheinkin's accessible biography, The Notorious Benedict Arnold, introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing American Revolution battle scenes, and surprising twists, this is a gripping and true adventure tale from history. “Sheinkin sees Arnold as America's ‘original action hero' and succeeds in writing a brilliant, fast-paced biography that reads like an adventure novel...The author's obvious mastery of his material, lively prose and abundant use of eyewitness accounts make this one of the most exciting biographies young readers will find.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Several complex political, social, and military themes emerge, one of the most prominent being that within the Continental army, often simplistically depicted as single-minded patriots, beat hearts scheming with political machinations that are completely familiar today...Arnold's inexorable clash with Gates and his decision to turn traitor both chill and compel.” —Horn Book Magazine (starred review) Also by Steve Sheinkin: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America
