Benedict Arnold: a Question of Honor.(Television Program Review)

From: The Loyalist Gazette | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor A&E TV; Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammar, Flora Montgomery, 2003

Americans have traditionally viewed their revolution as a morality play: a struggle between good and evil. If the Patriots and the principles they fought for are good, British tyranny and anyone who opposed the rebellion must be bad. Anyone who initially supported the revolution and then rejected it must have been an irredeemable villain. Of course, such black-and-white portrayals are a bit dated in our sophisticated age, but this presents historians of United States history with ...

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