Treacherous Beauty is the first popular biography of an eighteenth-century society girl named Peggy Shippen close friend of a British spymaster and wife of Benedict Arnold and how she was instrumental to the treasonous plot to sabotage the American Revolu"

"Guaranteed to make you the smartest person in the room One problem: you can't stop reading this clever, amazing assortment of upscale trivia." --Bill Kurtis, cohost of Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me

For years, the Chicago Tribune's popular weekly column 10 Things You Might Not Know has been entertaining readers while informing them on a diverse range of fascinating subjects. 10 Things You Might Not Know About Nearly Everything is a carefully curated collection of these columns, presented in a fun, easy-to-read format. This book provides well-researched,...