The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre Book

Meticulously researched, full of rich and intimate personal detail, Flexner combines his considerable talents as an historian with a novelist's flare for drama, comedy, irony and tragedy. He is much harder on Arnold than other historians, but no less convincing. Not meant as a full biography of Arnold, this book instead matches his powerful, difficult, sad, and self-destructive personally against two lives he altered for the worse, his wife Peggy Shippen, and Major André, who hoped to ride Arnold's treason to his own fame and success. I might not choose this as the first or only book on Arnold to read, but it is an excellent second choice to Wallace or Martin.