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American Scoundrel

by Keneally, Thomas

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Chatto & Windus, 2002. 1st UK edition.. Hardback. Imitation cloth, dj, F/F. xii+397pp, index, a fine copy. A biography of the notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. Sickles was involved in a number of scandals, including the murder of his wife's lover. He was acquitted after using temporary insanity as a legal defense for the first time in United States history.

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Hero, adulterer, bon vivant, murderer and rogue, Dan Sickles led the kind of existence that was indeed stranger than fiction. Throughout his life he exhibited the kind of exuberant charm and lack of scruple that wins friends, seduces women, and gets people killed. In American Scoundrel Thomas Keneally, the acclaimed author of Schindler's List, creates a biography that is as lively and engrossing as its subject.Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spain--among many other women. But the most startling of his many exploits was his murder of Philip Barton Key (son of Francis Scott Key), the lover of his long-suffering and neglected wife, Teresa. The affair, the crime, and the trial contained all the ingredients of melodrama needed to ensure that it was the scandal of the age. At the trial's end, Sickles was acquitted and hardly chastened. His life, in which outrage and accomplishment had equal force, is a compelling American tale, told with the skill of a master narrative.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller
Eastleach Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
52836
Title
American Scoundrel
Author
Keneally, Thomas
Format/Binding
Hardback
Book Condition
Used
Edition
1st UK edition.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0701169745
ISBN 13
9780701169749
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2002
Keywords
ISBN 0701169745, biography, american civil war, true crime

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