Benedict Arnold and friends

From: Human Events | Date: January 27, 2003| Author: Coombs, Marian Kester | Copyright information

A&E Network Movie Confronts the `Question of Honor'

Back when kids played Davy Crockett in the woods and snarled things such as "It's a free country-make me!," if you called a kid "Benedict Arnold" everybody knew you meant "treacherous turncoat."

That Arnold was a traitor is beyond doubt. This film seems to have been made in an attempt to explain his high-risk, very personal treason as the result of innate character, upbringing, influential personalities, and the slings of...

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