Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution: 2 (The American Revolution Series) - Softcover

Book 2 of 3: The American Revolution Series

Philbrick; Nathaniel

 
9780593511398: Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution: 2 (The American Revolution Series)

Synopsis

In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favourite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realise that the real threat to its liberties might not come from outside but from within. Complex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.

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About the Author

Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award; Mayflower, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Bunker Hill, winner of the New England Book Award; Sea of Glory; The Last Stand; Why Read Moby Dick?; and Away Off Shore. He lives in Nantucket.

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