Steven’s Reviews > Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution > Status Update

"No matter how eloquently the Declaration of Independence had attempted to justify the American rebellion, a residual guilt hovered over the circumstances of the country's founding. Arnold changed all that. By threatening to destroy the newly created republic through, ironically, his own betrayal, Arnold gave this nation of traitors the greatest of gifts: a myth of creation."