
The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold
An American Life
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A vivid and timely re-examination of one of young America's most complicated figures: The war hero turned infamous traitor, Benedict Arnold.
Proud and talented, history now remembers this 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?
Historian Joyce Lee Malcolm skillfully unravels the man behind the myth and gives us a portrait of the true Arnold and his world. There was his dramatic victory against the British at Saratoga in 1777 and his troubled childhood in a pre-revolutionary America beset with class tension and economic instability. We witness his brilliant wartime military exploits and learn of his contentious relationship with a newly formed and fractious Congress, fearful of powerful military leaders, like Arnold, who could threaten the nation's fragile democracy.
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Otherwise the book is excellent. Trying its best to an objective non-judgmental neutral view of Arnold, the author writes an easy to follow and understand narrative. Campaigns such the Canada battles are discussed in detail that show military thought but doesn’t alienate non-army readers.
The book does sudden after Arnold’s betrayal with just two chapters left. Really felt that a post analysis of Arnold’s role in American rhetoric as the American Judas was in order and the author really should have explored this but the book just ends after Arnold’s death. The first chapter lightly touches this (author says it united all Americans after the war to point at a common villain but doesn’t provide anything beyond just saying this) but really offers no real scholarship on Arnold.
But Arnold’s life story is told here so brilliantly that this book regardless is a must read. Put it alongside a shelf of founding father biographies.
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