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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
by Keneally, Thomas
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385722257
- ISBN 13
- 9780385722254
- Seller
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New Braunfels, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Anchor Books, 2003. Soft Cover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers slightly creased; moderate edge wear/ corners creased/ several pages and page tips creased
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
- Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027465
- Title
- American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- Author
- Keneally, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385722257
- ISBN 13
- 9780385722254
- Publisher
- Anchor Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Product_type
- 2
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About Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar
Harvest Moon Farm Book Cellar is a family owned and operated on-line bookstore. We are building a small non-conventional farm in the Texas Hill Country. We operate our bookstore out of a small outbuilding. Our books are located by searching every garage sale and thrift store, that we can, in over seven counties. We love the thrill of the hunt and the satisfaction of placing one person's unwanted book in the hands of someone who needs it (it also helps pay for the books we get to keep for ourselves).
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