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 Britain and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and later married a crippled revolutionary general twice her age. At age 19, she brought these two men together in a treasonous plot that, had it succeeded, might have turned George Washington into a prisoner and changed the course of the war.

Peggy Shippen was Mrs. Benedict Arnold.



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“More than the wife of a famous traitor…”

“At last, a serious work on one of the most fascinating and little known women in American history! Peggy Shippen was so much more than the wife of the famous traitor – she was a woman with a foot in two worlds, an American whose life serves as a perfect illustration of the wild complexities of the Revolution. With Treacherous Beauty Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case have done ample justice to the life and times of their subject with this fair-minded, well researched and finely crafted biography, a gift to students of the Revolution eager to dig beneath the well-worn surface of that conflict’s history.”

--James L. Nelson, author of Benedict Arnold’s Navy


“Treacherous Beauty is history with all the sex, suspense, knavery, and bravery of a spy thriller.”

-- Philadelphia Inquirer





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