The Man In The Mirror; A Life Of Benedict Arnold

Brandt, Clare

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Random House, New York, 1994

0679401067 / 9780679401063

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xxii, 360 pages. Endpaper map. Frontispiece. Chronology. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Shows how the personal insecurities and longings for material wealth of the brilliant military leader undermined his superior qualities and how his transgressions eventually caught up with him. Brandt does not try to rehabilitate Arnold, although she insists on showing us his strengths as well as his weaknesses. The author was a noted authority on Colonial and Revolutionary America whose publications have set standards and endured since publication. Derived from a Kirkus review: A biography that explains coherently why Benedict Arnold became the American Revolution's Lucifer, the brightest angel who suffered the steepest fall from grace. Colonial historian Brandt locates the seed of Arnold's treason in ``the great American virus: social insecurity.'' In his teens, Arnold was forced to leave an elite private academy because of his alcoholic father's bankruptcy. Brandt's thesis enables her to identify ambition as the connecting thread between Arnold as energetic, intelligent, and courageous soldier and Arnold as greedy traitor. Notoriously touchy about the most dimly perceived slights, Arnold could take no solace in his reputation as the best American battlefield general of the war. Lacking a moral compass, he saw money and social prestige as his surest validations of character- -and, when these were lacking, he alienated potential allies with petulant outbursts. His downfall began when, as military commandant of Philadelphia, he mixed with well-heeled Loyalists (including his future wife, the beautiful Peggy Shippen) and engaged in war profiteering. Brandt takes us through the events that followed: Arnold's court-martial for financial malfeasance, his bungled attempt to hand over West Point to the British, and his final years as a financially insecure social leper in Canada and England. Despite Arnold's ``mighty heart,'' he was brought down by self-delusion and a reckless unconcern for any but himself (he sealed Major John Andre's doom by needlessly sending him behind Continental lines disguised as a civilian). Piercing insights into one of our most infamous figures. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing [Limited to 12,500].…

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Titre
The Man In The Mirror; A Life Of Benedict Arnold
Auteur
Brandt, Clare
Éditeur
Random House, New York
Année de publication
1994
État de l'article
Very good
Jaquette
Very good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0679401067
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780679401063
Illustrateur
Claudia Carson (Cartography) and Cameron W. Brandt
Édition
Edition originale
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