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Treacherous beauty : Peggy Shippen, the woman behind Benedict Arnold's plot to betray America / Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E278.A72 J34 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacob, Mark.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arnold, Margaret Shippen, 1760-1804.
- Arnold, Margaret Shippen.
- Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801.
- Arnold, Benedict.
- American loyalists--Biography.
- American loyalists.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 279 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2012.
- Contents:
- Princess of Philadelphia
- No safe haven
- Enter André
- The Meschianza
- Arnold arrives
- Love and money
- The general's wife
- Spymaster
- The dance of deceit
- The way to West Point
- "The greatest treasure you have"
- Meeting after midnight
- A capture and an escape
- The mad scene
- Pariah of Philadelphia
- The three fates
- "The handsomest woman in England"
- Strangers in America
- Unmanned
- The keepsake
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Kennedy fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780762773886 (hbk.)
- 076277388X (hbk.)
- OCLC:
- 756578890
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