American Scoundrel: Murder, Love And Politics In Civil War America by Keneally Thomas - 2002

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Random House. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Random House Australia , 2002-01-01. First edition, Complete Numbers . Hardcover. fine/fine. NOT an ex library book. Clean interior pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears. Dust jacket different than stock image.

Random House Australia, Milsons Point, New South Wales, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/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… Read More

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… Read More

Random House , Australia, 2002. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House ... this is the story of that killing and its repercussions.Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan; his political friends quickly gathered round; and Sickles was acquitted. His trial is described with all Thomas Keneally's powers of dash and drama, against a backdrop of double-dealing, intrigue and 'the slavery question'. Enslaved, in her turn, by the hypocrisy of nineteenth-century society, his wife was shunned and thereafter banned from public life. Sickles, meanwhile, was free to accept favours and patronage. He raised a regiment for the Union, and went on to become a general in the army, rising to the rank of… Read More

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Milsoms Point: Random House Australia, 2002. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. The contents lightly toned with age.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (black boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1.1 kg); (xii) 397pp; Index; Bibliography; ISBN: 1-7405-1083-6 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197736|| Condition:

Random House Australia 2002 Hardback. Very good.

Milsons Point, N.S.W., Australia: Random House Australia, 2002. xii, + 397pp. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Plain black boards undamaged. A concise inscription ("To P.e, who championed this book") signed and dated (2002) by the author, with an accompanying abstract 'smiley face' drawing on the title page. Text-block mildly tanned. Illustrated (portrait of Daniel E. Sickles & Mrs Sickles) dustjacket nominally edgworn only. Tom Keneally recreates a dramatic episode in American public life that escalated "on the last, cold Sunday of February, 1859, when Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House . . . Charming and ambitious, Dan Sickles literally got away with murder. His protector was none other than the President himself, the ageing James Buchanan . . . " Contents include: Prelims., Acks., Author's Note, 8 chapters, Finale, Last Work, Notes, Bibliography,… Read More