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American Scoundrel; The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
by Keneally, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1740510836
- ISBN 13
- 9781740510837
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About This Item
Random House Australia, Milsons Point, New South Wales, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. acknowledgements, author's note, notes, bibliography and index. Burnt orange coloured endpapers. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic / illustrated dustwrapper with burnt orange and gold coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The biography of General Dan Sickles:-- womaniser, politician, Civil War General, hypocrite– murderer. For, as the front fold over panel blurb states, "... Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. And the caddish, good-looking Dan Sickles personifies the extremes of the era: as a womaniser, he introduced his favourite Madame to Queen Victoria and while his wife stayed at home; as Minister of Spain, he began an affair with the Queen while courting one of her ladies in waiting; and in his later years, he installed his housekeeper as his mistress while his second wife took up residence nearby." Softening to the lower backstrip edge with a little rubbing of the book corners. Some handling marks to the front panel with uniform light tanning of the textblock edges and pages. Minor rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], IX - XII, 397, [7] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military History; United States; 19th century; History. ISBN: 1740510836. ISBN/EAN: 9781740510837. Inventory No: 0127999. . 9781740510837
Synopsis
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
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0127999
- Title
- American Scoundrel; The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- Author
- Keneally, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1740510836
- ISBN 13
- 9781740510837
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Place of Publication
- Milsons Point, New South Wales
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- BZDB2 General Dan Sickles, biography, 19th-century America, American Civil War, Society, murder Biography & Autobiography; Military History; United States; 19th century; History. Unbranded ISBN: 1740510836 EAN: 9781740510837 Keneally, Thomas America
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