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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
