cover image Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor

Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor

Willard Sterne Randall. Quill, $15 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-688-10968-4

This study, which contends that Arnold was ill-treated by America, reveals Arnold's impressive military accomplishments, his reasons for offering his services to the British in 1779, new information about his wife's role in the betrayal and his postwar efforts to clear his name. PW called this a ``richly detailed biography.'' Illustrated. (Sept.)