James Kirby Martin is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Houston and author of numerous books, among them Men in Rebellion and A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic.
"Restores Arnold to the pantheon of American war heroes." - The New England Quarterly "Often crosses paths with Kenneth Roberts's historical novels Arundel and Rabble in Arms and it makes a fine successor to those splendid books." --Allen D. Boyer New York Times Book Review "Both a biography and an extended meditation on the ironies of the Revolution, Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero is in many ways a remarkable example of the historian's craft...[an] indispensable guide." --Los Angeles Times "Restores Arnold to the pantheon of American war heroes." --New England Quarterly "Martin discloses a new and entirely credible Benedict Arnold." --The William and Mary Quarterly"Martin's thorough primary-source research--the best in any biography of Arnold to date--underpins convincing explanations for both Arnold's intense revolutionary zeal and his subsequent betrayal. The book offers essential lessons to modern military officers." --Journal of Military History
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