Joyce Lee Malcolm
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History remembers this proud, talented, and conflicted man solely through the lens of his last desperate act of treason. Yet the fall of Benedict Arnold remains one of the Revolutionary period's great puzzles. Why did a brilliant military commander, who repeatedly risked his life fighting the British, who was grievously injured in the line of duty, and fell into debt personally funding his own troops, ultimately became a traitor to the patriot cause?...
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A compelling, intimate history of the Revolutionary period through a series of charismatic and ambitious families, revealing how the American Revolution was, in many ways, a civil war.
"Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! -John Adams to Abigail Adams, 26 April 1777
All wars are tragic, but the "revolutionary generation" paid an exceptionally personal price. Foreign wars pull men from...