Word: andre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gibbet & Knot. Major André of the 54th Foot Regiment became the goat of the sorry affair. Handsome, cultivated, a poet-painter as well as adjutant general of the British Army in America, he was as eager for glory as Arnold. Let the American traitor turn over the fortress at West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier...
This week there is black news for Arnold's sentimental defenders. In The Traitor and the Spy, Author James Thomas Flexner (Doctors on Horseback, A Short History of American Painting) has drawn their hero-and quartered him. His is the most carefully researched study of the Arnold-André story so far published, more searching even than the late Carl Van Doren's Secret History of the American Revolution, which showed Arnold for what he was. Cool, reasoned, and highly readable, The Traitor and the Spy may well stand as the last word on the subject...
...egged her husband on. On the evidence, Flexner suggests that the idea of turning traitor may have been hers in the first place. As much a woman as a conspirator, she added pretty feminine requests for silks and satins to her husband's treasonable letters to Major John André. That she had known André when the British held her native Philadelphia is certain; that they were old flames is not proved. But Peggy Shippen Arnold kept a lock of André's hair until the day she died...
...LIFE OF GEORGE SAND (482 pp.)-André Maurois-Harper...
...Nohant-though she fascinated a wide public with what she wrote, and left collected works that ran to 96 volumes. Her personality and the world she built around it were of such fascination and complexity that scores of guidebooks have served only to complicate the intricacy. France's André Maurois has now written a biography that is both the finest study ever made of George Sand and by far the best book ever written by André Maurois...