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American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
by Thomas Keneally
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good++/Very Good++
- ISBN 10
- 0385501390
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501392
- Seller
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Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Nana A. Talese, 2002. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good++/Very Good++. This is a Very Clean & bright Civil War hardback in Very Good++ condition with a Very Good++ jacket. c2002. First Edition & 1st Printing. NO remainder marks. This book is in Very nice condition both inside and out and looks very lightly read.. It has Very Nice edges and nice spine ends with just a little wrinkle. The pages are tight & bright, unmarked, no names. The jacket is very bright & very clean, with price and no tears, and just a little light spine end wrinkle. Very Light shelf wear. No Remainder marks. 397 pages. #22110-1023
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
- Glenn David Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022110
- Title
- American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles
- Author
- Thomas Keneally
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition. 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385501390
- ISBN 13
- 9780385501392
- Publisher
- Nana A. Talese
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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