BENEDICT ARNOLD: REVOLUTIONARY HERO An American Warrior Reconsidered by James Kirby Martin

Benedict Arnold, whose very name has become a synonym for "traitor," is reconsidered in this biography. "My research," writes the author, "did not confirm what so many others have said Arnold was or what the folktales made him out to be...this is an account of a Revolutionary warrior and hero in which the answer to the question -- why treason? -- also resides." (New York University Press, 535 pages, softcover)