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The first modern biography of the greatest traitorand one of the most colorful charactersin American history. Patriot, traitor, general, James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction. Brilliant and precocious, at age twenty he was both the youngest general in the revolutionary Continental Army, and privy to the Conway cabal to oust Washington from command. He was Benedict Arnold's aide, but the first to reveal Arnold's infamous treachery. By thirty-eight, he was the senior general in the United States armyand had turned traitor himself. Wilkinson's audacious career as Agent 13 in the Spanish secret service while in command of American forces is all the more remarkable because it was anything but hidden. Though he betrayed America's strategic secrets, sought to keep the new country from expanding beyond the Mississippi, and almost delivered Lewis and Clark's expedition into Spanish hands, four presidentsWashington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madisonturned a blind eye to his treachery. They gambled that Wilkinsonby turns charming and ruthlesswould never betray the army itself and use it to overthrow our nascent democracya fate every other democracy in the Western hemisphere endured. The

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Author

Linklater, Andro

Publisher

Walker Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802717207

Category

history

Subjects

Military, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.83 / 5 (120 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13