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Barry K. Wilson; $39.95 cloth 0-7735-2150-X, 296 pp., 6 [Symbol Not Transcribed] [times] 9, McGill-Queen's University Press, May Reviewed from bound galleys
Benedict Arnold = traitor. The equation is simple, well known, and largely unquestioned. A leading military commander for the American rebels in the 1776 revolution, Arnold later defected to the British and tarnished his name for eternity. Barry K. Wilson's revisionist biography of the rebel general attempts to reverse Arnold's...