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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Anchor Books
Publication date
May 1, 2003
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385722254
ISBN-10
0385722257
Dimensions
1 by 5.50 by 8 in.
Weight
0.64 lbs.
Original list price
$16.00
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
General James Longstreet | Sickles at Gettysburg | Hero of the Empire | Winfield Scott Hancock | A Commonwealth of Thieves | The Killer Angels | The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder | Sickles the Incredible
General James Longstreet | Sickles at Gettysburg | Hero of the Empire | Winfield Scott Hancock | A Commonwealth of Thieves | The Killer Angels | The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder | Sickles the Incredible
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The best-selling author of Schindler's List re-creates the colorful life and times of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, and thanks to the influence of political friends, including President James Buchanan, got away with murder. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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 Schindlerâs 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 Spainâamong 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 trialâs 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.
Dan Sickles was a member of Congress, led a controversial charge at Gettysburg, and had an affair with the deposed Queen of Spainâamong 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 trialâs 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.
Editions
Hardcover
from Doubleday (April 1, 2002)
9780385501392 | details & prices | 397 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.60 lbs | List price $27.50
About: Examines the life of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife's lover and, thanks to the influence of political friends, got away with murder.
About: Examines the life of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife's lover and, thanks to the influence of political friends, got away with murder.
Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Anchor Books (May 1, 2003)
9780385722254 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.64 lbs | List price $16.00
About: Examines the life of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife's lover and, thanks to the influence of political friends, got away with murder.
About: Examines the life of nineteenth-century politician and military leader Dan Sickles, a notorious womanizer and scoundrel who killed his wife's lover and, thanks to the influence of political friends, got away with murder.
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