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On Thursday Apr. 17th at 7:00 pm The Beacon Sloop Club’s 2024 Lecture Series presents; God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man w/ Jack Kelly.This spring marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War. The Hudson River and Champlain Valley was the scene of critical events in that conflict. That corridor played an even bigger role in the career of Benedict Arnold.
Author Jack Kelly will be discussing the life of America’s most notorious traitor. Kelly’s book GOD SAVE BENEDICT ARNOLD: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man gives an eye-opening account of both the undeniable heroism of Arnold’s early efforts for the patriot cause and his precipitous fall from grace. The combination has made him one of the most interesting figures of the Revolution.
Kelly, who also wrote a detailed account of the Battle of Valcour Island, brings to the fore Arnold’s career as a sea captain, experience which allowed him to command the new nation’s first naval battle. If you think of Arnold only as a traitor, it might be time to take another look.
Jack Kelly is an award-winning historian and novelist. His books about the Revolution include Band of Giants and Valcour. The Wall Street Journal said of his latest book, God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America’s most Hated Man that it “propels readers into the brutal action with vigorous prose and sentences that are often short and pugnacious—much like Arnold himself.” Jack has received the DAR History Medal and is a New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in Nonfiction Literature. He lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.
Free, Beacon Sloop Club, 2 Red Flynn Dr., Beacon, NY. For more information: www.beaconsloopclub.org (845) 463-4660, (914) 879-1082
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Beacon Sloop Club, Beacon, New York, United States
