Valiant ambition [LP] George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
In 1780, after four years of war, America was forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. In a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation, Philbrick focuses on loyalty and person...
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Farmington Hills, Mich. :
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning,
[2016]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Philbrick, Nathaniel, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Valiant ambition [LP] : |b George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution / |c Nathaniel Philbrick. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution [LP] |
| 260 | |a Farmington Hills, Mich. : |b Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, |c [2016] | ||
| 264 | 4 | |c c2016. | |
| 300 | |a 825 pages (large print), 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps, portraits, black and white ; |c 22 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (pages 611-814). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface: The fault line -- The wilderness of untried things. Demons of fear and disorder ; The mosquito effect ; A cabinet of fortitude ; The year of the hangman ; The dark eagle ; Saratoga -- Secret motives and designs. The bite of a rattlesnake ; The knight of the burning mountain ; Unmerciful fangs ; The chasm ; The pangs of a dying man ; The crash ; No time for remorse -- Epilogue: A nation of traitors. | |
| 520 | |a In 1780, after four years of war, America was forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from within. In a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation, Philbrick focuses on loyalty and personal integrity, unfolding the key relationship of George Washington and Benedict Arnold, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. | ||
| 600 | 0 | 0 | |a Washington, George, |d 1732-1799. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Arnold, Benedict, |d 1741-1801. |
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