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American Scoundrel:The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
by Keneally, Thomas
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About This Item
Easton Press, 2002. Limited Numbered First Edition. Full Leather. Fine - As New/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome dark grey full leather Limited Numbered First Edition signed by the author on the limitation page and numbered 434 pf 1.150 Limited Edition copies. A spotless copy in fine unread condition with gold gilt cover designs and page edges, moire silk endpapers and bound-in silk bookmark. By the author of "Schindler's List." Includes the publisher's Note and Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press. A beautiful copy.
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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- Parrish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2225
- Title
- American Scoundrel:The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- Author
- Keneally, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- New Fine - As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Numbered First Edition
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Date Published
- 2002
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