Valiant Ambition by Nathaniel Philbrick
A New York Times BestsellerWinner of the George Washington Prize
A surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold, from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofIn The Heart of the Sea,Mayflower,andIn the Hurricane's Eye.
"May be one of the greatest what-if books of the age-a volume that turns one of America's best-known narratives on its head."-Boston Globe
"Clear and insightful, Valiant Ambition consolidates Philbrick's reputation as one of America's foremost practitioners of narrative nonfiction."-Wall Street Journal
In the second book of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns to the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. In September 1776, the vulnerable Continental army under an unsure George Washington evacuated New York after a devastating defeat by the British army. Three weeks later, one of his favorite generals, Benedict Arnold, miraculously succeeded in postponing the British naval advance down Lake Champlain that might have lost the war. As this book ends, four years later Washington has vanquished his demons, and Arnold has fled to the enemy. America was forced at last to realize that the real threat to its liberties might not come from without but from withinComplex, controversial, and dramatic, Valiant Ambition is a portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation.
Nathaniel Philbrick grew raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Brown University with a BA in English and Duke University with an MA in American Literature, where he was a James B. Duke Scholar. Fellow at Duke University. In 1978, he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, Rhode Island, and became Brown University's first Intercollegiate All-American sailor. He wrote and edited several books about sailing after working as an editor at Sailing World magazine, including The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind, and Yaahting: A Parody. At the Heart of the Sea, a New York Times bestseller that received the National Book Award for nonfiction, was released by Philbrick in 2000.
The Warner Bros. film is based on the book. Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Benjamin Walker, Ben Wishaw, and Tom Holland feature in the film Heart of the Sea, directed by Ron Howard. The book was also the inspiration for an NBC Dateline broadcast in 2001 and Ric Burns' two-hour PBS American Experience film Into the Deep in 2010. Vanity Fair, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe have all published Philbrick's work.
On the Today show, The Morning Show, Dateline, PBS's American Experience, C-SPAN, and NPR, he has appeared. He and his wife reside on the island of Nantucket.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143110194 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143110195 |
| Title | Valiant Ambition |
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2017-05-09 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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