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American scoundrel love, war and politics in Civil War America

On the last Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. His protector was none other than the President himself. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions.

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  • "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.Thomas Keneally brilliantly recreates an extraordinary period, when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. American Scoundrel is the lens through which the reader can view history at a time when America was being torn apart."
  • "On the last Sunday of February 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. His protector was none other than the President himself. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions."@en
  • "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. 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 madam to Queen Victoria while his wife stayed at home; as minister to Spain, he began an affair with the Queen while courting one of her ladies in waiting; and in his later years, he installed his housekeeper as his mistress while his second wife took up residence nearby. The brio with which Thomas Keneally tells the tale is equal to the pace and bravado of Sickles' life. But, more than this, American Scoundrel is the lens through which the reader can view history at a time when America was being torn apart."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "From the author of Schindler's List.<P>Internationally published author.<P>Thomas Keneally was the winner of the Booker Prize.<P>Narrated by an American Publishers Assocation Audie Award winner, Humphrey Bower.<P>American Scoundrel is the lens through which the listener can view history at a time when America was being torn apart.<P> 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 brigadier-general and commanding a flank at the Battle of Gettysburg - at which he lost a leg, which he put into the military museum in Washington where he would take friends to visit it."

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  • "American Scoundrel The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles"@en
  • "American scoundrel the life of the notorious Civil War general Dan Sickles"
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