
Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war's most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen...

Treacherous Beauty is the first popular biography of an eighteenth-century society girl named Peggy Shippen-close friend of a British spymaster and wife of Benedict Arnold--and how she was instrumental to the treasonous plot to sabotage the American Revolution.