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Steve Sheinkin

The Notorious Benedict Arnold

Nonfiction | Biography | YA | Published in 2010

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“Benedict Arnold: The Revolutionary War in Four Minutes”

  • 5-minute video on Arnold from the American Battlefield Trust
  • Compare this video’s treatment of Arnold’s story and of Ambition and Rivalry with that in The Notorious Benedict Arnold.

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