Treacherous Beauty ─ Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America
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ISBN13:9780762773886
替代書名:Treacherous Beauty
出版社:Globe Pequot Pr
作者:Mark Jacob; Stephen H. Case
出版日:2012/07/03
裝訂/頁數:精裝/279頁
規格:23.5cm*15.9cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
商品簡介
Histories of the Revolutionary War honor several heroines. There’s Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. But there is no popular biography —yet—that focuses on one of the most remarkable women of the war, a beautiful society girl named Peggy Shippen, who befriended a handsome British spy and then married a crippled American revolutionary general twice her age. At a crucial juncture in the Revolutionary War, Peggy brought the two enemy warriors together in a treasonous plot that came perilously close to turning George Washington into a prisoner of war and possibly changing the outcome of the conflict. Peggy Shippen was Mrs. Benedict Arnold.
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Peggy was to the American Revolution what the fictional Scarlett O’Hara was to the Civil War: a woman whose survival skills trumped all other values. Had she been a man, she might have been arrested, tried, and executed. And she might have become famous. But because of?eighteenth-century views of women?and her own guileful deflection of blame, Peggy's role was minimized and she was allowed to recede into the background – with a generous British pension in hand. It took a century and a half for historians to begin to appreciate her true treacherous role during our nation’s birth.
作者簡介
Stephen H. Case is managing director and general counsel of Emerald Development Managers LP. He is a member of the board of the American Revolution Center.
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Mark Jacob, deputy metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, was part of the team that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism.
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