Boston Athenæum

June 16, 2016 at the Boston Athenæum. Nathaniel Philbrick will share his surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold. He will share excerpts from his book Valiant Ambition, a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. He will argue that after four years of war, America was forced to realize that the real threat to its liberties was not from without but from within.