Brief description:
From the dust jacket:
THE EXQUISITE SIREN
The Romance of Peggy Shippen and Major John André
The most glamorous story in the annals of American history is that of the lovely Peggy Shippen, arch-conspirator of the Revolution, of her love for the gallant young Major john Andre, and of the part she played in the treason of West Point. This novel, which is based on a new and authentic interpretation of the events leading up to that treason, is one of great dramatic intensity. Young, beautiful, ambitious, Peggy Shippen was inevitably drawn into the web of intrigue, of plots and counter-plots woven by Major john André, the man she loved, and by Colonel Aaron Burr, his
adversary.
Benedict Arnold, Peggy’s husband, is revealed as a selfish, unscrupulous scoundrel to whom gold was the only god. Major André appears, not as the hated spy of orthodox history, but as a brave and talented young man, who placed honor above everything else, and for it sacrificed love, happiness, even his life.
THE EXQUISITE SIREN
The Romance of Peggy Shippen and Major John André
The most glamorous story in the annals of American history is that of the lovely Peggy Shippen, arch-conspirator of the Revolution, of her love for the gallant young Major john Andre, and of the part she played in the treason of West Point. This novel, which is based on a new and authentic interpretation of the events leading up to that treason, is one of great dramatic intensity. Young, beautiful, ambitious, Peggy Shippen was inevitably drawn into the web of intrigue, of plots and counter-plots woven by Major john André, the man she loved, and by Colonel Aaron Burr, his
adversary.
Benedict Arnold, Peggy’s husband, is revealed as a selfish, unscrupulous scoundrel to whom gold was the only god. Major André appears, not as the hated spy of orthodox history, but as a brave and talented young man, who placed honor above everything else, and for it sacrificed love, happiness, even his life.
Publication
Lippincott,(1938),Hdbk,DJ,,Good