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Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America by Stephen Case, Mark Jacob
4.0
Wow; another great read about the characters appearing on "Turn".
Peggy Shippen was the wife of one of our country's greatest villains, Benedict Arnold. I'd never heard of her before, or really given any thought to whether or not Arnold had a wife or what she may have been like. Big mistake. Peggy is a fascinating woman. Like the author, I'm convinced that Peggy played a significant role in her husband's defection to the Loyalists and then minimized her involvement by behaving as a typical woman of the times; weak and unable to engage in intrigue or plots. Through in a bout of "madness" and you've got a woman who is deemed innocent by the men around her; men who included George Washington. I'm convinced she's a genius, as well as a traitor.
Peggy Shippen was the wife of one of our country's greatest villains, Benedict Arnold. I'd never heard of her before, or really given any thought to whether or not Arnold had a wife or what she may have been like. Big mistake. Peggy is a fascinating woman. Like the author, I'm convinced that Peggy played a significant role in her husband's defection to the Loyalists and then minimized her involvement by behaving as a typical woman of the times; weak and unable to engage in intrigue or plots. Through in a bout of "madness" and you've got a woman who is deemed innocent by the men around her; men who included George Washington. I'm convinced she's a genius, as well as a traitor.