Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America

by Stephen H. Case and Mark Jacob

Book Overview

Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war's most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging between England and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and then married a crippled revolutionary general twice her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076277388X
• ISBN13: 9780762773886
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"