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...were better things to come. One was an excellent first volume of a definitive biography of Sigmund Freud by a distinguished British disciple, Dr. Ernest Jones. Biographer Andre Maurois published his best book, Leila, about man-eating French Novelist George Sand. In The Traitor and the Spy, James Thomas Flexner took a careful historical look at Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre in a book rich in excitement and scholarship. Irving Brant finished the fourth volume of his massive James Madison, which may yet (one more volume to come) turn out to be one of the most distinguished U.S. biographies...
...Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web; an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME...
...Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web; an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME...
...Traitor and the Spy, by James Thomas Flexner. How Benedict Arnold wove treason and Major John Andre was caught in the web: an impressive double history, told with scholarship and edge (TIME...
Another legend that dies hard is that Arnold's wife, lovely Peggy Shippen of the "heavenly bosom," was an innocent bystander. Author Flexner shows that she was bosom-deep in the mess from the start, and 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...